About the Journal | Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile

Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile provides students and scholars with a fundamental tool in the field of Anglo-Saxon studies. The project aimed to produce complete facsimiles of the five-hundred or so manuscripts containing Old English. Each volume presented facsimiles and descriptions of complete manuscripts. The descriptions are prepared by experienced scholars basing their work on first-hand examination of the manuscripts and extensive research.

Manuscripts are described in toto, even though the post-Anglo-Saxon material that is found as part of many of them may demonstrate no immediate or ultimate relationship with Anglo-Saxon interests. Many or most manuscripts are basically in Latin, with small amounts of Old English text. To have edited the facsimiles and descriptions, presenting only confirmed Anglo-Saxon parts, or Old English words, would eliminate important material to be noticed or discovered and in any case would remove Anglo-Saxon vestiges from their actual material and cultural contexts. Users must decide for themselves the relevance of the materials presented in the series.

ASMMF was founded by Phillip Pulsiano and A.N. Doane, with generous grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Evjue Foundation of Madison, Wisconsin, and the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (now the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England). The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies published all twenty-eight volumes between 1994 and 2020. The digitization of the volumes has been made possible through grants from Simon Fraser University’s Scholarly Digitization Fund.

Note on Digital Edition

Here, all of the manuscript descriptions in the published volumes are now freely available in stable format; where available in open access, a link to a digital avatar of the manuscript from its home library has been provided. For manuscripts published by ASMMF but not digitized by their home libraries, facsimiles are available in the published volumes in research libraries worldwide. The text of the descriptions published here is searchable, though bear in mind that the machine-reader cannot interpret several characters (ash, e-caudata, eth, thorn etc.): caveat lector.