Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2010. First Thus. 8vo with eggplant cloth boards with gilt stamping and colored endpapers in gold dustjacket; xxv, 374 pages; 21 cm. fine in fine(-) jacket, now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780674052956, 0674052951
In Old English with a facing modern English translation. Among the finest works of European vernacular literature from the Middle Ages, Beowulf is a fitting tide to head the Old English family of texts published in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval LibraryContents: Introduction. The Beowulf manuscript. The passion of Saint Christopher. The wonders of the East. The letter of Alexander the Great to Aristotle. Beowulf. Judith. Appendix: The fight at Finnsburg. Note on the texts. Notes to the texts. Notes to the translation. Language Notes: In Old English with a facing modern English translation.
