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    Laurence (or Lawrence) Nowell (1530 – c. 1570) was an English antiquarian, cartographer and pioneering scholar of the Old English language and literature...
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  • Laurence (or Lawrence) Nowell (c. 1516–1576) was an English churchman, who became Archdeacon of Derby and then Dean of Lichfield. Laurence Nowell was...
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    more famous. This second manuscript is known as the Nowell Codex, after the antiquarian Laurence Nowell, whose name is inscribed on its first page; he was...
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    the body of the text survives in a transcript made by the antiquary Laurence Nowell in 1562. Version B survives as a composite part of seven further manuscripts...
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  • Charlestown, Massachusetts Jack Nowell (born 1993), rugby player Jaylen Nowell (born 1999), American basketball player Laurence Nowell (c.1530–c.1570), English...
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    was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, where he studied law. In 1568, with Laurence Nowell's encouragement, he published a collection of Anglo-Saxon laws, Archaionomia...
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    The Beowulf manuscript is known as the Nowell Codex, gaining its name from 16th-century scholar Laurence Nowell. The official designation is "British Library...
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  • interpolations in the Old English Bede, by Laurence Nowell. His work on Nowell included the discovery in 1934, in Nowell's transcription, of the poem Seasons...
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  • Sheldon, Warwickshire, on the estate bought in 1575 by his grandfather Laurence Nowell. He married at Holy Trinity, Minories, London. He was named within...
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    8th century. The earliest known owner of the codex was antiquarian Laurence Nowell, who left his signature in the top margin of several pages from the...
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    ff. 39–47 in the manuscript. However, a transcript had been made by Laurence Nowell, a 16th-century antiquary, which was used by Abraham Wheelocke in an...
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    brother of Laurence Nowell, who became Dean of Lichfield. His sister Beatrice was the mother of John Hammond; Another brother, Robert Nowell, became Attorney...
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    mathematician and surveyor (d. c. 1559) Jean Maillard, French composer Laurence Nowell, English antiquarian (d. 1571) Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer and...
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  • fragmented, but it is suggested that it was already fragmented when Laurence Nowell signed the manuscript in the 1500s. The quantity of the missing text...
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    House, he was briefly tutored by Laurence Nowell, the antiquarian and Anglo-Saxon scholar. In a letter to Cecil, Nowell explains: "I clearly see that my...
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    Sixteenth-century Old English West Saxon pp. 25-25 Transcription of Otho B. xi by Laurence Nowell, predating the loss of Cædmon's Hymn. O 279, Oxford, Corpus Christi...
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  • 1731 and "Seasons for Fasting" was among the losses. The antiquarian Laurence Nowell had made a transcript in 1562, which was recovered by Robin Flower...
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    traditional derivation of Læwe, first posited by the Tudor antiquarian Laurence Nowell, derives it from the Old English word hlæw, meaning 'hill' or 'barrow'...
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  • and scholars. Some of the earliest collectors and scholars included Laurence Nowell, Matthew Parker, Robert Bruce Cotton and Humfrey Wanley. Old English...
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    learned Welsh and Old English for the task: his tutor in Old English was Laurence Nowell. In 1593 Camden became headmaster of Westminster School. He held the...
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