In Episode 11 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Lindsey and Dot chat with Stephen Hopkins about Junius 11, one of the four surviving Old English poetic codices. We talked about a lot of things, including Genesis A & B, the strangeness of an Old English Exodus, horror, and nipples (yes, nipples!), and we laughed more than we have in a while.
Listen here, or wherever you find your podcasts.
Below the cut are more page images and further reading.
Bodleian Junius 11 online
"The Story of Caedmon's Hymn" on the British Library website
The Old English Illustrated Hexateuch (British Library Cotton Claudius B iv)
Brandon Hawk on Inside My Favorite Manuscript talking about the Vercelli Book (one of the other Old English poetic codices that survives)
Junius 11 outside front cover:
Junius 11 inside front cover (note the break down the center of the wooden board):
Junius 11, page ii: the very first image on the very first page.
Junius 11, p. 197 with space left for an illustration that was never added
Dream of the Rood (page on Wikipedia)
Junius 11, page 2: Creation of the angels
Junius 11, page 3: The fall of the angels
Winchester Psalter (on the British Library website)
Pauline Baynes (tribute website)
Hunterian Psalter (on the University of Glasgow website)
Genesis B (page on Wikipedia)
Junius 11, page 13: the first page of Genesis B, the creation of Adam and Eve
Junius 11, page 6: The start of creation
Junius 11, page 7: More creation
Junius 11, page 24: Temptation of Eve
Junius 11, page 31: Eve offers the fruit to Adam and he eats it.
Junius 11, page 31, close up of lion in bottom margin
Ohlgren, Thomas H. "Five New Drawings in the MS Junius 11: Their Iconography and Thematic Significance." Speculum 47.2 (1972): 227-233. (PDF)
Junius 11, page 36: Eve sees Hell
Zooming in for a closer look on the nipples
Junius 11, page 34: More nipples
Junius 11, page 39: Even more nipples
Junius 11, page 41: The Serpent
Junius 11, page 44: God scolding Adam and Eve
Junius 11, page 45: Adam and Eve leave the garden
Junius 11, page 46
Junius 11, p. 231: The opening of Christ and Satan, with a horizontal crease through the middle of the page
Junius 11, page 161: Repaired with sewing
Junius 11, page 61: Enoch melting into heaven "like a butter sculpture"
Junius 11, page 66: Noah's Ark
Junius 11, page 65: Building the ark
Junius 11, page 2: Zoomed in on Aelfwine
Junius 11, page 230: Metallurgical sketches
Junius 11, page 225: Unfinished decorative square
Cotton MS Tiberius B V, folio 87v: Jannes and Jambres (Wikipedia page)
