Codex Exoniensis AKA Exeter Cathedral Library MS 3501
[related: The Ruin]
The oldest and longest known manuscript of Olde English literature, contained around 1/6th of known script. The Codex Exon, in shorthand, was created by REDACTED around 1000 A.D. and consists of over 130 leaves. Material in the codex is split between common verse, riddles (often involving Biblical apocrypha), and various gnostic and demonic lexicography, including the first known cataloging of wights. The folios 123b-124b contain the codices most iconic refrain - forty-nine lines of verse titled The Ruin, a tragic and evocative recounting of a once great city besieged by corporate greed and thus undone by fate. The best known poem in the manuscript is The Panther.
