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Aelfric's Lives of saints : being a set of sermons on saints' days formerly observed by the English church, edited from manuscript Julius E. VII in the Cottonian collection, with various readings from other manuscripts / by Walter W. Skeat.

Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham, author.; Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William), 1835-1912.; Gunning, Miss.; Wilkinson, Miss.
1881
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Title
Aelfric's Lives of saints : being a set of sermons on saints' days formerly observed by the English church, edited from manuscript Julius E. VII in the Cottonian collection, with various readings from other manuscripts / by Walter W. Skeat.
Created/published
London : Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co., 1881-1900.
Description
2 v. ; 23 cm
Associated name
Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham, author.
Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William), 1835-1912.
Gunning, Miss.
Wilkinson, Miss.
Series statement
Early English Text Society ; no. 76, 82, 94, 114
Note
Old English and modern English on opposite pages. The modern English version is almost entirely the work of Miss Gunning and Miss Wilkinson.

"Now for the first time printed."

"May practically be regarded as forming a 'third series' of Aelfric's Homilies ... though they were doubtless intended to constitute an independent work."
Series
Early English Text Society (Series). Original series ; no. 76, etc.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.

Call number
PR1119 .A2 no.076

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