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Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts: An Introduction / Kornexl, Lucia / Lenker, Ursula -- Part I: Micro-Texts beyond Manuscripts -- Reading Money: An Introduction to Numismatic Inscriptions in Anglo-Saxon England / Naismith, Rory -- Practical Runic Literacy in the Late Anglo-Saxon Period: Inscriptions on Lead Sheet / Hines, John -- Text on Textile: Ælfflæd’s Embroideries / Owen-Crocker, Gale R. -- Part II: Scribal Engagement in Manuscripts -- The Colophons of Codex Amiatinus / Gameson, Richard -- Cryptograms in Old English as Micro-Texts / Scragg, Donald -- Two Micro-Texts in Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies: A Puzzle Revisited / Hill, Joyce -- Part III: From Scribbles, Glosses and Mark-Ups to Text -- “No sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English” (Lewis Carroll): Making Sense of an Old English Scribble in the Royal Psalter / Irvine, Susan -- The Old English Dry-Point Glosses / Nievergelt, Andreas -- Minimal Collections of Glosses: The Twelve Rooms of Thomas’ Palace / Lendinara, Patrizia -- Encyclopaedic Notes as Micro-Texts: Contextual Variation and Communicative Function / Dekker, Kees -- The Micro-Texts of the Tremulous Hand of Worcester: Genesis of a Vernacular liber exemplorum / Johnson, David F. -- Wulfstan at Work: Recovering the Autographs of London, British Library, Additional 38651, fols. 57r–58v / Rudolf, Winfried -- A Text within a Text: St Augustine’s Prayer at the Beginning of his Soliloquia and its Old English Version / Sauer, Hans -- Part IV: Old English and Anglo-Latin Poetry -- Guidance for Wayfarers: About to Do God’s Work, Devoutly Recalled / Stanley, E. G. -- Discrepancies between Cædmon’s Hymn and its Latin Rendering by Bede / Bammesberger, Alfred -- The Hymnus trium puerorum: An Unrecognized Poem by Wulfstan of Winchester? / Lapidge, Michael / Gneuss, Helmut -- Index of Manuscripts -- General Index In this volume, scholars from different disciplines – Old English and Anglo-Latin literature and linguistics, palaeography, history, runology, numismatics and archaeology – explore what are here called ‘micro-texts’, i.e. very short pieces of writing constituting independent, self-contained texts. For the first time, these micro-texts are here studied in their forms and communicative functions, their pragmatics and performativity
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