INCIPIT EUANGELIUM SECUNDUM
Marcum
CAPUT I
- Hēr ys godspellys angyn Hǣlyndes Crīstes, Godes Suna.
- Swā āwriten is on þæs wītegan bēc Isaiam, Nū ic āsende mīnne engel beforan þīnre ansȳne, sē gegearwað þīnne weg beforan ðē;
- clypiendes stefn on ðām wēstene, Gegearwiað Drihtnes weg, dōð rihte his sīðas.
- Iohannes wæs on wēstene fulligende, and bodiende dædbōte fulwiht on synna forgyfenesse.
- And tō him fērde eall Iudeisc rīce, and ealle Hierosolima ware, and wæron fram him
Cap. 1. 1. Corp., er (for Her; space is left for an illuminated initial), B, Her (but B has at the beginning six new leaves, supplied in the sixteenth century to restore the loss of cap. i, 1 to cap. iv, 37 — ending with þæt scyp þæt. The restorer's variants will be given; for the most part these represent errors); A, om. the entire verse. — 2. A, stefen; A, geearwiað. — 4. A, bodigende dætbote fulluht; A, forgifennysse.
