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this edition, many further notes, and references to the other works of Ælfric, &c., have been added; and certain errors, inadvertently made in the first edition, have been corrected.

It has been thought advisable to discard the monkish characters used by the Anglo-Saxon scribes, and to substitute for them the Roman alphabet, retaining only the Gothic "ð."

The reading "Exameron" occurring in both MSS. has been retained on the Saxon side.

The hand-writing of the more ancient MSS. (viz., "Junius 23," and "Hatton, No. 76") is presumed, from a comparison with the copies given in Astle, &c., to be that belonging to the latter part of the tenth century.

New College, May 5, 1849.