The Vercelli Book

Vercelli Book, The,
an Old English manuscript, made in England before the year 1000 , now in the possession of the chapter of Vercelli in north Italy. It contains prose sermons and about 3,500 lines of Old English poetry; its most distinguished contents are the poems Dream of the Rood and Andreas , and two of the four signed poems of Cynewulf : Elene and The Fates of the Apostles.

Bibliography

ASPR 2. The Vercelli Book Poems, ed. F. P. Magoun ( 1960 ).