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The Junius manuscript is one of the four major codices of Old English literature. Written in the 10th century, it contains poetry dealing with Biblical subjects in Old English, the vernacular language of Anglo-Saxon England.
Introduction. “Junius 11” is the nickname of a manuscript of Old English biblical poetry, whose formal shelf mark is Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 11. It contains the sole surviving copies of four long Old English poems, which modern editors have titled Genesis, Exodus, Daniel, and Christ and Satan.
Junia gens. Bust in the Capitoline Museums, traditionally identified as Lucius Junius Brutus. The gens Junia or Iunia was one of the most celebrated families of ancient Rome. The gens may originally have been patrician, and was already prominent in the last days of the Roman monarchy.
On the ancient Roman calendar, mensis Iunius or Iunius, also Junius ( June ), was the fourth month, following Maius ( May ). In the oldest calendar attributed by the Romans to Romulus, Iunius was the fourth month in a ten-month year that began with March ( Martius, " Mars ' month").
Modern DateRoman DateStatusJune 1Kalendae IuniaeN2a.d. IV Non. Iun. [10]F3III Non. Iun. [11]C4prid. Non. Iun. [12]CJunius, the pseudonym of the still unidentified author of a series of letters contributed to Henry Sampson Woodfall’s Public Advertiser, a popular English newspaper of the day, between Jan. 21, 1769, and Jan. 21, 1772. Junius’ aims were to discredit the ministries of the Duke of Grafton and.
Early English and other manuscripts collected by Francis Junius (1589-1677). Franciscus Junius the Younger (1591-1677) was born in Heidelberg. Brought up among the Calvinist scholars of the University of Leiden, he began his career as a theologian. As a consequence of the religious quarrels between the Arminians and the Gomarists, he resigned ...
