Excerpt from The Authorship of the West Saxon Gospels
The following remarks about the mss. And the printed edi tions of the anglo-saxon Gospels, down to printed edition no. IX, have been copied from Professor Skeat's Prefaces to the Gospels, Often verbatim; but a verbatim transcript has not always been suitable for use in this brief paper. I have pre ferred to use the term Wes! Saxon Gospels instead of the less definite term anglo-saxon Gospels, when only the West Saxon version has had to be designated. Of course, in quoting the exact title of a printed edition, the substitution has not been made.
There have come down to us only the following eight mss. Of the anglo-saxon Gospels. Each of the first six contains the West Saxon version in whole or in part.
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