Early English Text Society Original Ser.

This is a critical edition of the Old English homilies in Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare MS CXVII, with parallel passages from related manuscripts. The introduction deals with the manuscript, language, parallel texts and Latin sources. The text has a critical apparatus giving the readings of other manuscripts and analogues from the other homilies, and there is a commentary and glossary. This is the first complete edition of these important ninth- or tenth-century texts.