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This chapter has ten sections: 1. Bibliography; 2. Manuscript Studies, Palaeography, and Facsimiles; 3. Social, Cultural, and Intellectual Contexts; 4. Literature: General; 5. The Poems of the Exeter Book; 6. The Poems of the Vercelli Book; 7. The Poems of the Junius Manuscript; 8. Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript; 9. Other Poems; 10. Prose. Initial drafts of sections 1, 2, 3, 4, and 10 were prepared by Christine Wallis; initial drafts of sections 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 were jointly prepared by Christine Wallis and Rebecca Fisher. All sections were revised and enlarged by Victoria Symons and Simon Thomson.