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This is a public domain image from Kip Wheeler's homepage at Carson-Newman College. Kip Wheeler declared its status thus: "The original image of the Beowulf manuscript comes from the anonymous Anglo-Saxon scribe who wrote the 'Nowell Codex', Cotton Vitellius A.x.v. 129 r. It appears here as reproduced in Julius Zupitza's Beowulf: Autotypes of the Unique Cotton MS Vitellius A.xv. in the British Museum with a Transliteration and Notes. E.E.T.S. O.S. 77. London: Trubner & Co., 1882. This image is public domain."

Originally uploaded to English Wikipedia by Jwrosenzweig.


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current 14:52, 25 November 2004 363×576 (54 KB) EugeneZelenko (Original image of the Beowulf manuscript.<br/>Originally uploaded to English Wikipedia by Jwrosenzweig.<br/>{{PD}})
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