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The following list includes all texts in Mitchell and Robinson's A Guide to Old English with cross-references to the DOE online corpus. Each entry provides the standard edition, as well as DOE's Short Title and Cameron Number (for Bibliography Searches).

Two Old Testament Pieces

The Fall of Man (Genesis 3:1-19)
Abraham and Isaac (Genesis 22:1-19)
Genesis (London, British Library, MS. Cotton Claudius B.IV):
Crawford 1922, 81-211 The Old English Version of the Heptateuch, EETS 160 (London); repr. with additions by N.R. Ker 1969.
ShortTitle: Gen
CameronNo: b8.1.4.1

A Colloquy on the Occupations
Ælfric, Colloquy: Garmonsway 1939, 18-49 Ælfric's Colloquy, Methuen Old English Library (London); 2nd ed. 1947 [repr. 1965].
ShortTitle: ÆColl
CameronNo: c3

Two Characteristic Prose Works by Ælfric

Preface to Genesis
Ælfric's Preface to Genesis (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 509):
Crawford 1922, 76-80 The Old English Version of the Heptateuch, EETS 160 (London); repr. with additions by N.R. Ker 1969.
ShortTitle: ÆGenPref
CameronNo: b8.1.7.1

St. Edmund, King and Martyr
Passion of Saint Edmund: Skeat 1881-1900 II, 314-34 Ælfric's Lives of Saints, 4 vols., EETS 76, 82, 94, 114 (London) [repr. in 2 vols. 1966].
ShortTitle: ÆLS (Edmund)
CameronNo: b1.3.31

Alfred the Great's Preface to his Translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care
Gregory the Great, The Pastoral Care, Letter to Wærferth: Sweet 1871, 3-9 King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care, 2 vols., EETS 45, 50 (London) [repr. 1958].
ShortTitle: CPLetWærf
CameronNo: b9.1.1

Cynewulf and Cyneheard (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 755)
Selections from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

London, British Library, MS. Cotton Tiberius B.I:
Rositzke 1940, corrected against the MS by O'Brien O'Keeffe 2000. The C-Text of the Old English Chronicles, Beiträge zur englischen Philologie 34 (Bochum-Langendreer) [repr. 1967].
ShortTitle: ChronC (Rositzke)
CameronNo: b17.7

The Parker Chronicle: Earle, J. and Plummer, C. 1892-9. Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel, 2 vols. (Oxford); based on an edition by John Earle; reissued by D. Whitelock, 1952.
ShortTitle: ChronA (Plummer)
CameronNo: b17.1

London, British Library, MS. Cotton Tiberius B.IV:
Classen and Harmer 1926. An Anglo-SaxonChronicle (Manchester).
ShortTitle: ChronD (Classen-Harm)
CameronNo: b17.8

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 636:
Earle and Plummer 1892-9, as E Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel, 2 vols. (Oxford); based on an edition by John Earle; reissued by D. Whitelock, 1952.
ShortTitle: ChronE (Plummer)
CameronNo: b17.9

Bede's Account of the Conversion of King Edwin
Bede, History of the English Church and Nation, Book 2: Miller 1890-98, 94-152 The Old English Version of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, 4 vols., EETS 95, 96, 110, 111 (London) [repr. 1959-63].
ShortTitle: Bede 2
CameronNo: b9.6.4
(starts at [0270 (10.134.23)])

Bede's Account of the Poet Cædmon
Bede, History of the English Church and Nation, Book 4: Miller 1890-98, 252-384 The Old English Version of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, 4 vols., EETS 95, 96, 110, 111 (London) [repr. 1959-63].
ShortTitle: Bede 4
CameronNo: b9.6.6
(starts at [0548 (25.342.3)])

The Goths and Boethius: Prose and Verse from the Introduction to King Alfred's Boethius Translation

Prose
Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy: Sedgefield 1899, 7-149 King Alfred's Old English Version of Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae (Oxford) [repr. Darmstadt 1968].
ShortTitle: Bo
CameronNo: b9.3.2

Verse
The Meters of Boethius: Krapp 1932b, 153-203 The Paris Psalter and the Meters of Boethius, ASPR 5 (New York).
ShortTitle: Met
CameronNo: a6

Riddles
(a)
Riddles 46: Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 205 The Exeter Book, ASPR 3 (New York).
ShortTitle: Rid 46
CameronNo: a3.22.46

(b)
Riddles 86: Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 238 The Exeter Book, ASPR 3 (New York).
ShortTitle: Rid 86
CameronNo: a3.34.26

(c)
Riddles 47: Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 205 The Exeter Book, ASPR 3 (New York).
ShortTitle: Rid 47
CameronNo: a3.22.47

(d)
Riddles 7: Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 184-5 The Exeter Book, ASPR 3 (New York).
ShortTitle: Rid 7
CameronNo: a3.22.7

(e)
Riddles 85: Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 238 The Exeter Book, ASPR 3 (New York).
ShortTitle: Rid 85
CameronNo: a3.34.25

(f)
Riddles 27: Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 194 The Exeter Book, ASPR 3 (New York).
ShortTitle: Rid 27
CameronNo: a3.22.27

(g)
Riddles 38: Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 199 The Exeter Book, ASPR 3 (New York).
ShortTitle: Rid 38
CameronNo: a3.22.38

(h)
Riddles 23: Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 192 The Exeter Book, ASPR 3 (New York).
ShortTitle: Rid 23
CameronNo: a3.22.23

(j)
Riddles 14: Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 187 The Exeter Book, ASPR 3 (New York).
ShortTitle: Rid 14
CameronNo: a.3.22.14

(k)
Riddles 9: Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 185 The Exeter Book, ASPR 3 (New York).
ShortTitle: Rid 9
CameronNo: a3.22.9

(l)
Riddles 51: Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 206 The Exeter Book, ASPR 3 (New York).
ShortTitle: Rid 51
CameronNo: a3.22.51

(m)
Riddles 50: Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 206 The Exeter Book, ASPR 3 (New York).
ShortTitle: Rid 50
CameronNo: a3.22.50

(n)
Riddles 55: Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 208 The Exeter Book, ASPR 3 (New York).
ShortTitle: Rid 55
CameronNo: a3.22.55

(o)
Riddles 30b and 60: Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 224-25 The Exeter Book, ASPR 3 (New York).
ShortTitle: Rid 30b
CameronNo: a3.31.1

(p)
Riddles 74: Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 234 The Exeter Book, ASPR 3 (New York).
ShortTitle: Rid 74
CameronNo: a3.34.14

The Battle of Maldon: Dobbie 1942, 7-16 The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems,ASPR 6 (New York).
ShortTitle: Mald
CameronNo: a9

The Ruin: Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 227-9 The Exeter Book, ASPR 3 (New York).
ShortTitle: Ruin
CameronNo: a3.33

The Dream of the Rood: Krapp 1932a, 61-5 The Vercelli Book, ASPR 2 (New York).
ShortTitle: Dream
CameronNo: a2.5

The Wife's Lament: Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 210-11 The Exeter Book, ASPR 3 (New York).
ShortTitle: Wife
CameronNo: a3.23

The Wanderer: Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 134-7 The Exeter Book, ASPR 3 (New York).
ShortTitle: Wan
CameronNo: a3.6

The Seafarer: Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 143-7 The Exeter Book, ASPR 3 (New York).
ShortTitle: Sea
CameronNo: a3.9

Beowulf: Dobbie 1953, 3-98 Beowulf and Judith, ASPR 4 (New York).
ShortTitle: Beo
CameronNo: a4.1

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EARLY ENGLISH MANUSCRIPTS IN FACSIMILE

Published by Rosenkilde and Bagger, Copenhagen, Denmark, since 1951; UK Special Collections currently owns volumes 1-17, 19, and 20, and others are on order.
Call no: 091 Ea76 (and volume number):

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Malone, Kemp, editor. The Thorkelin Transcripts of Beowulf in Facsimile, vol. 1 (1951).

Arngart, Olof Sigfrid, editor. The Leningrad Bede: An Eighth-Century Manuscript of the Venerable Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum in the Public Library, Leningrad, vol. 2 (1952).

Campbell, Alistair, editor. The Tollemach Orosius: British Museum Additional Manuscript 47967, vol. 3 (1953).

Whitelock, Dorothy, editor. Appendix by Cecily Clark. The Peterborough Chronicle: the Bodleian Manuscript Laud Misc. 636, vol. 4 (1954).

Wright, C. E., editor. Appendix by Randolph Quirk. Bald's Leechbook: British Museum Royal Manuscript 12D. XVII, vol. 5 (1955).

Ker, N. R., editor. The Pastoral Care: King Alfred's Translation of St. Gregory's Regula Pastoralis. MS Hatton 20 in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, MS Cotton Tiberius B. XI in the British Museum, MS Anhang 19 in the Landesbibliotek at Kassel, vol. 6 (1956).

Sawyer, Peter, editor. Textus Roffensis: Rochester Cathedral Library Manuscript A.3.5, vols. 7 and 11 (1957-62).

Colgrave, Bertram, editor. Preface by various contributors.The Paris Psalter: MS Bibliothèque Nationale Fonds Latin 8824, vol. 8 (1958).

Blair, Peter Hunter, editor. Contribution by Roger A. B. Mynors. The Moore Bede: An Eighth-Century Manuscript of the Venerable Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum in Cambridge University Library Kk.5.16, vol. 9 (1959).

Willard, Rudolph, editor. The Blickling Homilies: the John H. Scheide Library, Titusville, Pennsylvania, vol. 10 (1960). [Note: the John H. Scheide Library is now located at Princeton, N.J.]

Malone, Kemp, editor. The Nowell Codex: British Museum Cotton Vitellius A. XV, Second MS, vol. 12 (1963).

Eliason, Norman and Peter Clemoes, editors. Ælfric's First Series of Catholic Homilies: British Museum Royal 7 C. XII, Fols. 4-218, vol. 13 (1966).

Campbell, Alistair, editor. The Vespasian Psalter: British Museum Cotton Vespasian A. I, vol. 14 (1967).

Farmer, David H., editor. The Rule of St. Benedict: Oxford Bodleian Library Hatton 48, vol. 15 (1968).

Brown, T. Julian, editor. Contributions by F. Wormald, A. S. C. Ross and E. G. Stanley. The Durham Ritual: A Southern English Collectar of the Tenth Century with Northumbrian Additions: Durham Cathedral Library MS A. V 19, vol. 16 (1969).

Loyn, Henry R., editor. A Wulfstan Manuscript Containing Institutes, Laws and Homilies: British Museum Cotton Nero A. I, vol. 17 (1971).

Dodwell, C. R., editor. The Old English Illustrated Hexateuch: British Museum Cotton Claudius B. IV, vol. 18 (1974).

Sisam, Celia, editor. The Vercelli Book: A Late Tenth-Century Manuscript Containing Prose and Verse: Vercelli Biblioteca Capitolare CXVII, vol. 19 (1976).

Verey, Christopher D., T. Julian Brown, Elizabeth Coatsworth, and Roger Powell, editors. The Durham Gospels Together with Fragments of a Gospel Book in Uncial: Durham Cathedral Library Manuscript A. II 17, vol. 20 (1980).

McGurk, Patrick, editor. An Eleventh-Century Anglo-Saxon Illustrated Miscellany: British Library Cotton Tiberius B. V, Part I, Together with Leaves from British Library Cotton Nero D. II, vol. 21 (1983).

Bischoff, Bernhard, editor. The Épinal, Erfurt, Werden, and Corpus Glossaries, vol. 22 (1988).

Robinson, Fred C. and E. G. Stanley, editors. Old English Verse Texts from Many Sources: A Comprehensive Collection, vol. 23 (1991).

Bately, Janet, editor. The Tanner Bede: The Old English Version of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica, vol. 24 (1992).

Cross, James E. and Jennifer Morrish Tunberg, editors. The Copenhagen Wulfstan Collection: Copenhagen Kongelige Bibliotek G1. Kgl. Sam. 1595, vol. 25 (1993).

Keynes, Simon. The Liber Vitae of the New Minster and Hyde Abbey, Winchester: British Library Stowe 944: Together with Leaves from British Library Cotton Vespasian A. VIII and British Library Cotton Titus D. XXVII, vol. 26 (1996).

D'Aronco, M. A. and M. L. Cameron, editors. The Old English Illustrated Pharmacopoeia: British Library Cotton Vitellius C III, vol. 27 (1998).

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