The Vercelli Book is one of the oldest of the Old English Poetic Codices, one of the others being the Junius manuscript, is one of the how many major codices of Old English literature?
Vercelli Book The Vercelli Book is one of the oldest of the four Old English Poetic Codices (the others being the Junius manuscript, the Exeter Book, and the Nowell Codex). It is an anthology of Old English prose and verse that dates back to the late 10th century. The manuscript is housed in the Capitulary Library of Vercelli, in northern Italy.
Prosimetrum A prosimetrum (plural prosimetra) is a poetic composition which exploits a combination of prose ("prosa") and verse ("metrum"); in particular, it is a text composed in alternating segments of prose and verse. It is widely found in Western and Eastern literature. While narrative "prosimetrum" may encompass at one extreme a prose story with occasional verse interspersed, and at the other, verse with occasional prose explanations, in true "prosimetrum" the two forms are represented in more equal measure. A distinction is sometimes drawn between texts in which verse is the dominant form and those in which prose dominates; there the terms "prosimetrum" and "versiprose" are applied respectively.