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Cotton Vitellius A. xv British Library composite codex preserving the unique Beowulf manuscript.

Prefixed Leaves front matter, including a seventeenth-century elenchus contentorum.

Southwick Codex first of the two main Old English codices contained in British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A. xv. It includes four items:

• Soliloquies of St. Augustine
• Gospel of Nicodemus fragment
• Debate of Solomon and Saturn
• St. Quintin Homily fragment

Nowell Codex second of two main codices in Cotton Vitellius A. xv. It comprises five items, including Beowulf:

• Life of St. Christopher fragment
• Wonders of the East (illustrated)
• Alexander's Letter to Aristotle
• Beowulf
• Judith fragment

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