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Rh the earlier part of the text would seem to indicate that the author, whoever he was, had the manuscript of some other piece, and probably of the Gospel of Nicodemus, before him. I have in the case of both texts tried to follow the MSS closely, never changing a word or letter of the original, where there is a possibility of making sense of the MS reading. The punctuation and use of capitals are, however, my own.

The homily begins on the margin of p. 295 (older pagination 315) and extends through p. 301.

III. DE RESURRECTIONE DOMINI.

[''Fol. 876''] Đæs dæiges þe ure Hælend for ure alesednysse geðolede pine on þær halgen rode, þa wæs þære neh sum were standende, se wæs Ioseph genæmned; and he wæs god wer and rihtwis, and næs næfre his willes, þær me þone Hælend forwreigde on nanen gemange. He wæs of þære ceastre þe is genæmned Barimathia. He onbad on Ierusalem forð þæt se Hælend wæs ahangen. And to þan æfene he eode to Pilate and abæd æt him Cristes lichame and hine of þære rode genam and on clæne scete bewand and hine on his neowe þruh aleigde, on þære-þe nan oðer mann on ne læg.

Þa þa Iudees þæt geherdan, þæt Ioseph hæfde þæs Hælendes lichame abeden, þa sohten heo hine [''Fol. 88a] and þa twelf cnihtes þe sægden þæt he nære on dernelegere acænnod, and Nichodemus'' and manega oðre þe ær mid þam Hælende spæcen and his gode weorc gesegen and on hine gelefden. Ealle þær heo heom sylfen bedigeledan and