The proverbs of Alfred
By: re-edited from the manuscripts by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat ...
Publisher: At the Clarendon press
Published: 1907
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng; enm
Number of pages: 94
Subjects: English Proverbs; Middle English
Work titles: Proverbs of Alfred
Notes: An anonymous poem of the thirteenth century containing maxims and proverbs attributed to Alfred the Great.

"The shorter text, as in the Jesus college (Oxford) ms." and "the longer text, as in the Trinity college (Cambridge) ms." printed on opposite pages, with "fragments of a third text, as formerly extant in Ms. Cotton, Galba A. XIX" printed in the lower part of pages 2-13. cf. p. [1]