Six manuscripts of Ælfric's work on the twelve abuses are extant and they fall into two groups of three manuscripts, one group containing the stand-alone short treatise De duodecim abusiuis and the other a composite text composed of an introductory paragraph and an account of the eight chief vices and eight chief virtues, corresponding to Ælfric's LS xvi, lines 267-381, followed by a text of the entire De duodecim abusiuis. I will refer to this composite text as De octo uitiis. The manuscripts in the first group are Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 115 (P), CCCC 303 (C) and British Library, Cotton Vespasian D.xiv (G); those in the second group, with the composite text, are CCCC 178 (R), Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 116 (S) and London, Lambeth Palace Library 487 (X). In addition, we have three manuscripts which preserve Ælfric's treatment of the eight vices and virtues as part of LS xvi; these are London, British Library, Cotton Julius E.vii (W), CCCC 303 (C) and Cambridge, University Library, Ii.1.33 (L). This text begins with an account of the saints, covering the Old Testament, Christ and the martyrs and other saints of the New Testament; it then has a passage on the devil's attempts to seduce Christians, leading into descriptions of the three virtues of faith, hope and charity (the heahmægnu), the eight chief vices (heafodleahtras) and the eight chief virtues (heafodmægnu).