THE ILLUSTRATED OLD ENGLISH HEXATEUCH, COTTON CLAUDIUS B.IV. The Fronier of Seeing and Reading in Anglo-Saxon England.

First edition, first printing. Original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated in black and white throughout. With the accompanying CD in a plastic envelope tipped in on the rear pastedown, as issued. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean and bright throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears.

A study of the working processes of the scribes and artists who created The Old English Hexateuch which seeks to place the manuscript within the broader social and cultural development of vernacular literacy in the eleventh century.