Vercelli Book
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The Vercelli Book had not yet been discovered.
From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Tinker, Chauncey Brewster
We might as well assign to him, as has been suggested, all the poems in the two great manuscripts, the Exeter Book and the Vercelli Book, and be done with it.
From Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood Anglo-Saxon Poems by Garnett, James Mercer
This is now known as the Vercelli Book.
From Halleck's New English Literature by Halleck, Reuben Post
The Vercelli Book is so called because it was discovered in its home in the cathedral library at Vercelli in Italy a good many years ago.
From Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days by Hickey, Emily
There are two specially interesting collections of manuscript Anglo-Saxon poems, known respectively as the Exeter Book and the Vercelli Book.
From Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days by Hickey, Emily
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