Old English manuscript

C17549
concept

An Old English manuscript is a handwritten document from early medieval England, typically on parchment, preserving texts in the Old English language along with their contemporary script, ornamentation, and material features.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Old English manuscript canonical 8
Anglo-Saxon manuscript 2
Anglo-Saxon literary codex 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: Old English manuscript
Generated description
An Old English manuscript is a handwritten document from early medieval England, typically on parchment, preserving texts in the Old English language along with their contemporary script, ornamentation, and material features.

Instances (12)

Instance Via concept surface
Nowell Codex
Cotton Vitellius A XV
Vercelli Book
Cotton MS Vitellius A XV
Ælfric’s Glossary Old English glossary
Old English Hexateuch Old English translation
Benedictional of St Æthelwold Anglo-Saxon manuscript
Codex Exoniensis
Junius Manuscript Anglo-Saxon manuscript
MS 3501
Beowulf Manuscript (Nowell Codex)
surface form: Beowulf Manuscript
Codex CXVII