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Welcome to On the Margins of History, an online platform designed to support the study of the Latin, Old English and runic marginalia in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 41.

Cambridge Corpus Christi College MS 41 is an early-eleventh century manuscript witness of the Old English Bede, a vernacular translation of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica.

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Acknowledgements

This research was supported by the Irish Research Council.
I would like to sincerely thank Patrick Egan for his assistance in configuring and displaying the website's Mirador instance. With gratitude to my supervisors, Dr Orla Murphy and Dr Thomas Birkett.

Biography

Patricia O Connor has a BA in History and Archaeology and a Higher Diploma in English Literature from University College Cork. During the Higher Diploma, she studied the Old English Language and obtained the highest marks in her year. Based upon the high standard she maintained throughout the Higher Diploma, she was awarded an Excellence Scholarship for the Taught Masters “Texts and Contexts: Medieval to Renaissance Literature” course. Her MA thesis, "The Thematic and Contextual Affinities Between the Old English Bede and its Old English Marginalia in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 41" made a significant contribution to our nascent understanding of the connections between the Old English Bede and the marginal texts. She graduated from the MA with First Class Honours and recieved an Excellence Scholarship to pursue her research in Old English Literature as a PhD candidate within the Digital Arts and Humanities course offered by University College Cork. During her PhD research, she has continued to acquire the necessary skills for working with MS41. She earned first class honours marks in the Latin Language module, the Palaeography Workshop and in the Digital Skills for Research Posgraduates in the Humanities, all of which are offered in University College Cork.

Her PhD research is a continuation of her Masters research which focused on reconciling the Old English marginalia within a particular manuscript witness of the Old English Bede; Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 41. Her research interests include Old English and Latin language and literature, palaeography, codicology and the representation of marginalia and medieval manuscripts in the digital age. She is the author of “The Curious Incident of the Cattle Theft Charms in the Margins of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 41” in the forthcoming 33rd volume of the Traditional Cosmology Society journal and of ‘“Sitte ge, sigewif, sigað to eorþan!”: Settling the Anglo-Saxon Bee Charm within its Christian Manuscript Context” which will be published in the forthcoming 7th volume of Incantatio.

This website has been designed to actively encourage further research on the marginalia of CCCC41.