ERRATA.

n

Page 63, 1. 7 of Latin text, last word. For uobis read nobis. (The gloss is correct.)

64, col. 2, Various Readings. The words cumen and hit assigned to v. 64, belong to v. 65. 99, marginal note, no. 90. For mt. cxi, read mt. cxii.

105, lower (Rushworth) text; v. S. The word cftersona belongs to v. 7.

161, lower (Rushworth) text; v. 28. For groefa-halle read groefa halle, omitting the hyphen.

162, col. i, Various Readings. The word þyssum, as a rariant for dyson, belongs to v. 36, not 37.

„, 164, col. 1, Various Readings, last word. Before A. swydor insert S.

173, marginal note, no. 208. For mt. cccxluiii. mr. cexxuiiii, read mt. cccxluiiii. mr. ccxxuiii.

ERRATUM IN ST MARK'S GOSPEL.

Page 118, col. 2, v. 49. For ge me namen, read ge me ne namen. The word ne seems to have fallen out.

ERRATUM IN ST LUKE'S GOSPEL.

Page 167, lower (Rushworth) text, v. 31, first word. For cwed read cwæð.

PREFACE.

THE present volume forms the fourth and concluding portion of the exhaustive edition of the Anglo-Saxon Gospels, as planned by Mr Kemble. The first portion was published in 1858, with the title "The Gospel according to St Matthew, in Anglo-Saxon and Northumbrian Versions, synoptically arranged: with collations of the best Manuscripts. Edited for the Syndics of the Pitt Press. Cambridge: at the University Press. 1858." This text was edited by Mr Kemble to the end of p. 192, and completed by Mr Hardwick, who added a very short Preface, to indicate the names of the MSS. from which the volume was edited. The title is so worded as possibly to convey a wrong impression; since the MSS. collated include not only "the best," but "all" the MSS. now known to exist.

The second portion was published in 1871, with the title "The Gospel according to St Mark, in Anglo-Saxon and Northumbrian Versions, synoptically arranged, with collations exhibiting all the readings of all the MSS. Edited for the Syndics of the University Press, by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat, M.A. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1871." The Gospel of St Luke was published in 1874, with a similar title.

The arrangement of the subject-matter is the same in this volume as in the three volumes preceding it. The following is the scheme of the contents of any two opposite pages, after p. 11.

Left-hand Page.

First Column. TEXT. MS. No. I. (Corpus). Various Readings; from MS. II. or A. (Cambridge); MS. III. or B. (Oxford); and MS. IV. or C. (Cotton, Otho C. 1).

Second Column.
TEXT. MS. V. (Hatton).
Various Readings; from MS.
VI. or Royal (Brit. Mus.).

Right-hand Page.

UPPER TEXT. MS. VII. (Lindisfarne); Latin with Northumbrian gloss.

LOWER TEXT. MS. VIII. (Rushworth); gloss only. [But a collation of the Latin text is given in the Appendix.]

The rubrics in the left margin of the left-hand pages are from MS. A.; with a few from MS. B.

The rubrics in the right margin of the same pages are from the Hatton MS.;

but they occur also in the Royal MS. without (if I rightly remember) a single variation of any importance.

The numbers in the right margin of the right-hand pages are from the Lindisfarne MS., and furnish references to parallel passages in the other Gospels. They are fully explained in the Preface to St Mark's Gospel, p. xxiii.

The Latin text of the Rushworth MS. is omitted to save space; a collation of it is given in the Appendix.

The object of the arrangement is to shew the changes effected by time in the Anglo-Saxon text. The Corpus MS. exhibits the text in its earliest, and the (opposite) Hatton MS. in its latest form. These are put side by side. The Lindisfarne and Rushworth glosses are in the Northumbrian dialect; and therefore occupy the opposite pages, apart from the rest. Wherever the volume is opened, all the readings of all the MSS. are exhibited at once.

The MSS. are numbered and described in the Preface to St Mark's Gospel. Perhaps it will be most convenient to the reader, if I here briefly indicate what has been already said in the previous Prefaces.

ST MATTHEW. The Preface, by Mr Hardwick, briefly explains the circumstances under which he undertook to complete the edition, and gives the names of the eight MSS.

ST MARK. The Preface refers to the description of MSS. given in "The Gothic and Anglo-Saxon Gospels," edited by the late Rev. Joseph Bosworth, D.D., and G. Waring, Esq., published in 1865. Next follows a quotation from the Preface to the Wycliffite Versions of the Holy Bible, edited by Sir F. Madden and the Rev. J. Forshall in 1850, which gives an excellent account of the early versions of the Holy Scriptures. At p. v, is a description of the MSS., viz., I. the Corpus MS.; II. the Cambridge MS., also called A.; III. the Bodley MS., also called B.; IV. the Cotton MS., also called C. These belong to the first column. Next, of V. the Hatton MS. (H.); and VI. the Royal MS. These belong to the second column, and it may be remarked that the Royal MS. is really the original from which H. was copied; but H. is printed as the text, to shew the latest forms of the words, as was said above. Since every variation is noted, both texts are, practically, given in full.

At p. xi, is a description of the Lindisfarne MS. (L.); and at p. xii, of the Rushworth MS. (R.). At p. xiv, follows a description of the printed editions of the Anglo-Saxon Gospels, viz., I. Parker's edition, 1571; II. Junius and Marshall, 1665; III. Thorpe, 1842; IV. Bosworth and Waring, 1865; V. Bouterwek's edition of the glosses in the Lindisfarne MS., 1857; VI. Bouterwek's "Screadunga," i. e. Fragments, chiefly relating to St Mark's Gospel, 1858; VII. the Surtees Society's editions of the Northumbrian versions of St Matthew (1854), St Mark (1861), St Luke (1863), and St John (1365).