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Rh the Archbishop, it had sustained losses. To restore it to completeness twelve new parchment leaves, upon which, at the direction of the Archbishop, the missing portions were copied (from the Corpus MS.) in imitation of the old writing, were inserted as follows: six continuous leaves (fols. 57-62) containing Mark i, to iv, 37 (ending with þæt scyp þæt); one leaf (fol. 90) containing Mark xvi, 14 to the end of the Gospel; one leaf (fol. 131) containing Luke xvi, 14 (beginning with ðing) to xvii, 1 (ending with leorningcnihtum); one leaf (fol. 150) containing Luke xxiv, 51 (beginning with geworden) to the end of the Gospel; three continuous leaves (fols. 192-194) containing John xx, 9 (beginning with hāli ge-, repeated from the end of the preceding page) to the end of the Gospel. The restorer also inserted a number of the rubrics from MS. A.

A study of the lacunae in the MSS. led Professor Skeat to discover that the Royal MS. copy of the Version 18 directly derived from B, and the Hatton from the Royal. It is clearly seen that at the time the Royal MS. was written, B had sustained only a part of its losses. This condition of B may be denoted by B, which lacked the ends