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Franciscus Junius

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Franciscus Junius 1589-1677, French philologist; son of Franciscus Junius (1545-1602), French Huguenot theologian. The younger Franciscus Junius was born in Heidelberg and lived chiefly in Holland and England. A pioneer in the study of Gothic and Anglo-Saxon, he owned and edited a unique manuscript of Anglo-Saxon poems formerly attributed to Cædmon —now called the Junius Manuscript (Bodleian Lib., Oxford). For a modern edition, see G. P. Krapp, The Junius Manuscript (1931). Author not available, JUNIUS, FRANCISCUS. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition... Read more
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...who received suddenly, in a vision, the power of song. In 1655 François Dujon ( Franciscus Junius) published at Amsterdam from the unique Bodleian MS Junius II ( c. 1000) long scriptural poems, which he took to be those of Caedmon. These are... Read more
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...poetic powers through a vision. During his later years he became a lay brother in the abbey of Whitby. In 1655, Franciscus Junius, a Dutch scholar, published the text of several Old English poems, including Exodus and Daniel, and ascribed them... Read more

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; Franciscus Junius. Ed. Keith Aldrich, Philipp Fehl, and Raina Fehl. 2 pls...scholarship, and yet so little studied himself, as Francis Junius the Younger (1591-1677). Today Junius is recognized most widely among medievalists as a pioneering... Read more
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; ...34.00 (p/b). This facsimile edition of Franciscus Junius' ground-breaking publication of 1655...generous bibliography. Appendices reproduce Junius' manuscript notes from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 73, and the preliminaries to Edward Rowe... Read more
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; ...Gilman also offers a welcome interpretation of Franciscus Junius's De pictura veterum which links Junius's attempts to bring the ruins of classical...apologies for portraiture--and one formulated by Junius--was that portraits commemorated the exploits... Read more
Principally to delight: who says that museum-going isn't a leisure activity?(ART)
; ...century treatise on the ancient literature of art, Franciscus Junius quotes Statius admiringly, and rejoices that the amateur...contemplation of the divine workes of excellent Artificers. Junius might have added that, increasingly in his own time... Read more

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