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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: b8.1.7.1St. 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: b17.7The 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: b17.1London, British Library, MS. Cotton Tiberius B.IV:
Classen and Harmer 1926. An Anglo-SaxonChronicle (Manchester).
ShortTitle: ChronD (Classen-Harm)
CameronNo: b17.8Oxford, 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: b9.3.2Verse
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