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Rh correct form or the correction is otherwise marked; cf. f. i. ạf̣ỵ flyȝennysse 226 and smre 1220. In one case we find the sign // used twice to show inversion of order: //fexe //feallendum 1219. The same sign also occurs sometimes in the text either in black or in red, to refer to a word added in the margin, f. i. above egypetâ 23, king and rex being written in the margin (the latter twice), and after wriþ 615, on being written in the margin.

The glosses and minor pecularitiespeculiarities [sic] will be found either in the text or in the notes.

§ 5.–If we leave out of consideration onfeahþ 163, possibly an isolated Northern form, and sceppes 216 417 which has been explained otherwise, we may ascribe to our ms. a West-Saxon origin. The use of u for y, already noticed, the frequent occurrence of ea, eo, ēa, ēo due to breaking (cf. Phonetics), the no less frequent occurrence of æ̂ (cf. ibid.) the monophthongization of ea into e in ȝellen 1427, ȝellan 228 and scellan 2212, of ēa into ē in sced 2211 are, in fact, clearly West-Saxon. However some pecularitiespeculiarities [sic] which are not characteristic of WS. but which cannot be considered as belonging exclusively to other dialects make the borderland between the West-Saxon (WS.) and Anglian (A.)–or Kentish (K.)–territories a more probable place of origin.

10. The addition of h initially before a vowel is not uncommon in all Southern texts.