The manuscript was formerly in the French Library of St. Genevieve, and was purchased by Harley, Lord Oxford, in 1724, now forming part of the Harleian Collection in the British Museum. St. Matthew. The MS. was formerly in the French Library of St. Genevieve, and was purchased by Harley, Lord Oxford, in 1724, now forming part of the Harleian Collection in the British Museum. In the Bibliothèque Nationale of Paris there is now a MS. of very similar character which is assigned to the ninth century, and it is possible that the British Museum MS. may be of the same period, though there are many indications of its being the work of the preceding century STANFORD LIBRARY THE UNIVERSAL ANTHOLOGY A COLLECTION OF THE BEST LITERATURE, ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND MODERN, EDITED BY RICHARD GARNETT KEEPER OF PRINTED BOOKS AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM, LONDON, 1851 TO 1899 LEON VALLÉE LIBRARIAN AT THE BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE, PARIS, since 1871 ALOIS BRANDL PROFESSOR OF LITERATURE IN THE IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN Volume Eleven PUBLISHED BY THE CLARKE COMPANY, LIMITED, LONDON EMILE TERQUEM, PARIS MERRILL & BAKER, NEW YORK BIBLIOTHEK VERLAG, BERLIN |