The oldest English texts.
By: Ed. with introductions and a glossary by Henry Sweet, M.A.
Contributors: Durham Cathedral.; Catholic Church.
Series: [Early English Text Society. Original series,; no. 83]
Publisher: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, N. Trübner & Co.
Published: 1885
Place of publication: London
Language: ang; eng
Number of pages: 668
Subjects: Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735; English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Texts; English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Notes: "This collection is intended to include all the extant Old-English texts up to about 900 that are preserved in contemporary mss., with the exception of the Chronicle and the works of Alfred."--Pref.
Table of contents: title: Oldest glossaries. Inscriptions. Names in Bede's history. Northumbrian fragments. Liber vitae [Ecclesiae dunelmensis] Genealogies (Northumbrian) Lorica glosses. Lorica prayer. Lorica names. Codex aureus inscription. Durham admonition. Martyrology. Saxon genealogies. Bede glosses. Vespasian Psalter. Vespasian hymns. Charters. Glossary.