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The '''Old English Hexateuch''' or '''Old English Illustrated Hexateuch''' refers to a richly [[illuminated manuscript]] in London - [[British Library]], Cotton MS Claudius B.iv. It contains an [[Old English]] translation of the [[Hexateuch]], which is the earliest vernacular translation of the first six books of the [[Old Testament]], i.e. the five books of the Torah — [[Book of Genesis|Genesis]], [[Book of Exodus|Exodus]], [[Book of Leviticus|Leviticus]], [[Book of Numbers|Numbers]] and [[Book of Deuteronomy|Deuteronomy]] — and [[Book of Joshua|Joshua]]. Another copy of the text, without lavish illustrations but including a translation of the [[Book of Judges]] (hence also called the Old English Heptateuch), is found in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 509.

The manuscript was probably compiled in the second quarter of the 11th century at [[St Augustine's Abbey]], Canterbury. It incorporates translations and a preface by [[Ælfric of Eynsham]], while the remaining parts of the translation were carried out by anonymous authors. Peter Clemoes suggests that [[Byrhtferth of Ramsey]] was responsible for the compilation as well as for parts of the translation.

One or several artists accompanied the narrative with nearly 400 coloured drawings, some of which are unfinished.

==Further reading==
===Editions===
*Dodwell, C. R. & Clemoes, Peter (eds.). ''The Old English Illustrated Hexateuch''. Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile; 18. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1974. [[Facsimile]] edition of British Library, Cotton MS Claudius B.iv.
*Crawford, Samuel J. (ed.). ''The Old English Version of the Heptateuch, Ælfric's Treatise on the Old and New Testament and His Preface to Genesis''. Early English Text Society; 160. London: Oxford University Press, 1969. Critical edition of the text.
*Marsden, Richard (ed.). ''The Old English Heptateuch and Ælfric's "Libellus de veteri testamento et novo"''. Early English Text Society; 330. Oxford: Oxford U. P., 2008.

===Secondary literature===
*Barnhouse, Rebecca. ''Text and image in the Illustrated Old English Hexateuch''. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1994. Dissertation.
*Mellinkoff, Ruth. "Serpent Imagery in the Illustrated Old English Hexateuch." Brown, P. R., et al. (eds.) ''Modes of Interpretation in Old English Literature: essays in honour of Stanley B. Greenfield / edited by Phyllis Rugg Brown''. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986.
*Withers, Benjamin C. ''The Illustrated Old English Hexateuch, Cotton Claudius B.iv.: the frontier of seeing and reading in Anglo-Saxon England''. Studies in Book and Print Culture. London: British Library, 2007. ISBN 9780712309400.
*Withers, Benjamin C. "A 'secret and feverish genesis': the Prefaces of the Old English Hexateuch." ''The Art Bulletin''; 81:1 (1999): 53-71.
*Withers, Benjamin C. & Barnhouse, Rebecca (eds.). ''The Old English Hexateuch: aspects and approaches''. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, 2000.

==See also==
*[[Wessex Gospels]]

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