XV. Account of a Saxon Manuscript preserved in the Cathedral Library at Exeter, in a Letter from the Rev. J.J. Conybeare, A.M. Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford, to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. and S.A.

J.J. Conybeare

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XV. Account of a Saxon Manuscript preserved in the Cathedral Library at Exeter, in a Letter from the Rev. J.J. Conybeare, A.M. Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford, to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. and S.A.

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Among the inedited Saxon Manuscripts at this day existing in the collections either of individuals or public bodies, there are probably few superior in interest to the volume of Miscellaneous Poetry given by Leofric, the first Bishop of Exeter, to the Cathedral Church of that diocese, and still preserved in its capitular library.

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Information: Archaeologia , Volume 17 , 1814 , pp. 180 - 188

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^{page 181 note *} It would be more desirable to distinguish these letters by accentual marks, but this would I believe be impracticable, unless types were cast for the express purpose

^{page 184 note a} Sophoclis Antigone.

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XV. Account of a Saxon Manuscript preserved in the Cathedral Library at Exeter, in a Letter from the Rev. J.J. Conybeare, A.M. Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford, to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. and S.A.

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