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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 ).
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