Codex Nowell

Nowell Codex - sole surviving manuscript of Beowulf. Article “Codex Nowell” in French Wikipedia has 22.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (French) language version.

Since the creation of article “Codex Nowell”, its content was written by 12 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 138 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 81 times in French Wikipedia and cited 359 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #89387 in February 2012
• Global: #93157 in February 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #398568 in February 2014
• Global: #326732 in September 2008

There are 10 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Nowell Codex		37.8095
2	French (fr) Codex Nowell		22.8975
3	Norwegian (no) Nowellkodeksen		21.3452
4	Catalan (ca) Còdex Nowell		18.612
5	Spanish (es) Códice Nowell		16.93
6	Danish (da) Nowellkodekset		16.1034
7	Italian (it) Cotton Vitellius		14.355
8	Russian (ru) Рукопись Беовульфа		14.2411
9	Latin (la) BL Cotton Vitellius A.xv		4.4554
10	Dutch (nl) Nowell Codex		1.4702

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Codex Nowell" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Nowell Codex		551 213
2	Italian (it) Cotton Vitellius		45 637
3	Spanish (es) Códice Nowell		19 840
4	French (fr) Codex Nowell		11 000
5	Dutch (nl) Nowell Codex		4 892
6	Russian (ru) Рукопись Беовульфа		3 768
7	Norwegian (no) Nowellkodeksen		2 724
8	Danish (da) Nowellkodekset		1 991
9	Latin (la) BL Cotton Vitellius A.xv		1 015
10	Catalan (ca) Còdex Nowell		380

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Codex Nowell" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Nowell Codex		2 707
2	Italian (it) Cotton Vitellius		167
3	Spanish (es) Códice Nowell		85
4	Russian (ru) Рукопись Беовульфа		85
5	French (fr) Codex Nowell		70
6	Danish (da) Nowellkodekset		13
7	Dutch (nl) Nowell Codex		11
8	Norwegian (no) Nowellkodeksen		11
9	Catalan (ca) Còdex Nowell		10
10	Latin (la) BL Cotton Vitellius A.xv		9

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Codex Nowell" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Nowell Codex		60
2	Italian (it) Cotton Vitellius		21
3	Norwegian (no) Nowellkodeksen		20
4	French (fr) Codex Nowell		12
5	Spanish (es) Códice Nowell		10
6	Catalan (ca) Còdex Nowell		4
7	Latin (la) BL Cotton Vitellius A.xv		4
8	Dutch (nl) Nowell Codex		3
9	Danish (da) Nowellkodekset		2
10	Russian (ru) Рукопись Беовульфа		2

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Codex Nowell" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Códice Nowell		1
2	Catalan (ca) Còdex Nowell		0
3	Danish (da) Nowellkodekset		0
4	English (en) Nowell Codex		0
5	French (fr) Codex Nowell		0
6	Italian (it) Cotton Vitellius		0
7	Latin (la) BL Cotton Vitellius A.xv		0
8	Dutch (nl) Nowell Codex		0
9	Norwegian (no) Nowellkodeksen		0
10	Russian (ru) Рукопись Беовульфа		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Codex Nowell" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Nowell Codex		177
2	French (fr) Codex Nowell		81
3	Italian (it) Cotton Vitellius		56
4	Spanish (es) Códice Nowell		12
5	Dutch (nl) Nowell Codex		9
6	Catalan (ca) Còdex Nowell		8
7	Norwegian (no) Nowellkodeksen		8
8	Russian (ru) Рукопись Беовульфа		5
9	Latin (la) BL Cotton Vitellius A.xv		2
10	Danish (da) Nowellkodekset		1

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Còdex Nowell
da	Danish Nowellkodekset
en	English Nowell Codex
es	Spanish Códice Nowell
fr	French Codex Nowell
it	Italian Cotton Vitellius
la	Latin BL Cotton Vitellius A.xv
nl	Dutch Nowell Codex
no	Norwegian Nowellkodeksen
ru	Russian Рукопись Беовульфа

Best Rank

French: #398568 02.2014

Global: #326732 09.2008

Best Rank

French: #89387 02.2012

Global: #93157 02.2012

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