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Rh folios and reduced many others to fragments. In its present state it lacks the whole of the Gospel of St. Matthew (before the fire Matthew as fer as xxvii, 6 had already been lost) and the Gospel of St. Mark as &r as vii, 21. The first surviving fragment (folio 26) contains about forty words of Mark vii, 22-27. "The fragments increase a little in size from folio 26 to 38." Luke (which begins with folio 39) lacks one leaf (xxiv, 7—29) and John lacks two (xix, 27 to xx, 22); otherwise these two Gospels are but slightly defective. Between the Gospels of St. Luke and St. John there has been inserted a charter (of earlier date) relating to Malmesbury in Wiltshire; this may be taken as an indication of the original locality of the MS. In a note at the end of the Gospel of St. John, the scribe has revealed his name: Wulfwi mē wrāt. This copy of the Version must also be assigned to the period in which the preceding two were made; but it is much more closely related to B than to Corp.

A. — MS. Li. 2. 11 of the Cambridge University Library. This copy of the Version is approximately a half century later than the preceding three. Skeat dates it "about A. D. 1050." In addition to the Version, the MS. contains a copy of the Gospel of Nicodemus, and a tract uniting the embassy of Nathan with the legend of St. Veronica. There is also at the end a form of manumission (but of later date) relating to Exeter.