{"product_id":"codex-runicus-arnamagnaeanus-facsimile-edition-elliott-provenance-1877","title":"CODEX RUNICUS, Arnamagnæanus, Facsimile Edition - Elliott Provenance (1877)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDet Arnamagnæanske Haandskrift No. 28, 8vo: Codex Runicus, udgivet i fotolitografisk Aftryk af Kommissionen for det Arnamagnæanske Legat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKjøbenhavn: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1877.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA photolithographic facsimile of the Codex Runicus, the only substantial medieval manuscript written entirely in runes, from the library of the runologist Ralph W. V. Elliott, with an earlier eighteenth-century armorial bookplate of Sir John Eliot, Baronet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003exxi, facsimile section of 100 pp r\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eeproducing the manuscript in full \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eincluding its runic alphabet chart and the opening leaves of the text, followed by 112 pp. analysis in Danish. Several facsimile pages reproduce editorial annotations and letter corrections in red, printed as part of the original facsimile. Danish throughout, with an appendix by P. G. Thorsen on the use of runes for writing outside monumental inscriptions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo. Original half tan morocco over red cloth boards, spine gilt-lettered \"CODEX RUNICUS ARNAMAGNÆANUS,\" gilt rules to the leather. Front pastedown with two armorial bookplates: an earlier engraved bookplate \"NON SINE DEO, Sr. John Eliot, Bar.,\" and a later bookplate, \"Ex Libris Ralph and Margaret Elliott.\" Title page signed in ink by \"Ralph W. V. Elliott,\" with pencilled collection numbers to the front free endpaper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Codex Runicus is a thirteenth-century Scanian manuscript containing the Scanian Law and other Danish legal and ecclesiastical texts, unique as the only text of its length and substance written entirely in runic rather than Roman script; it is also the source of the earliest written specimen of secular Nordic music, the melody \"Drømde mig en drøm,\" set down beneath the runic text. Formerly known as the Codex Wormianus after its seventeenth-century owner, the antiquarian Ole Worm, the manuscript passed into the Arnamagnæan Collection and remains one of the principal surviving monuments of runic writing. This 1877 facsimile, issued by the Commission for the Arnamagnæan Bequest, was for many decades the standard means by which scholars studied the manuscript's text and letterforms without consulting the original. The copy's provenance adds real interest: it was owned by Ralph W. V. Elliott (1921–2010), the Anglo-Saxonist and runologist whose \u003cem\u003eRunes: An Introduction\u003c\/em\u003e (1959) remains a standard work in the field, a fitting association for a facsimile of one of runic writing's key surviving texts. The earlier bookplate of Sir John Eliot, Baronet, appears to be applied at some stage from another book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoards and gilt bright, bindingt square and sound. Internally clean and bright throughout, the facsimile pages crisp and unmarked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA photolithographic facsimile of the Codex Runicus from the library of the runologist Ralph W. V. Elliott, with an earlier armorial bookplate adding a further layer of provenance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ink \u0026 Signature Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67707812806708,"sku":"INK0328","price":430.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/3648\/4916\/files\/AD2369E6-9639-48C4-A93F-654621145825_1_201_a.jpg?v=1791891963","url":"https:\/\/www.inkandsignaturebooks.com.au\/products\/codex-runicus-arnamagnaeanus-facsimile-edition-elliott-provenance-1877","provider":"Ink \u0026 Signature Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}