An Old English miscellany containing a bestiary, Kentish sermons, Proverbs of Alfred, religious poems of the thirteenth century,
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An Old English miscellany containing a bestiary, Kentish sermons, Proverbs of Alfred, religious poems of the thirteenth century, from manuscripts in the British museum, Bodleian library, Jesus college library, etc
Author: Morris, Richard, 1833-1894
Year: 1872
"A bestiary (p. 1-25) comes from Arundel ms. 292. in the British museum, of about the middle of the thirteenth century. It is translated from the Latin Physiologus of Theobaldus ... Old Kentish sermons (p. 26-36) are ... a fragment ... found ... with their originals, the French sermons of Maurice de Sully, in a ms. in the Bodleian library, Laud. 471 ... From the Jesus college ms. [I. Arch. 29] Oxford, we have printed the pieces that constitute the bulk of the present volume."--Pref