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After a collation of the manuscripts, and an initial survey of the material for a critical edition of the Anglo-Saxon Gospels had been made, the Delegates of the Clarendon Press suggested the plan of putting forth in advance, with as little as possible of critical apparatus, a separate edition of one of these Gospels. . . . This earliest extant English version of the Gospels, of which a portion is given in this little volume, possesses a unique interest for the student of the early forms of the language; moreover, for the history of biblical translations, it has a value that deserves wider and more precise recognition. --from the Preface

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James W. Bright (1852-1926) was Professor of English Philology at Johns Hopkins University. In addition to editing Anglo-Saxon editions of all four gospels and the Psalms, he is the author of 'An Anglo-Saxon Reader,

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