A Crease in Gathering 17 of Bodleian MS. Junius 11

This article deals with a crease in gathering 17 of the Old English MS. Junius 11 (Oxford, Bodleian Library), especially with its possible role as evidence that a part of this gathering may have originated as a self-contained booklet before being bound into the MS. After a critical assessment of scholarship on this issue, the article shows that the crease cannot be considered as a piece of evidence for the booklet thesis and that MS. Junius 11 cannot therefore be defined as a composite manuscript.