have been reproduced as they are in the ms., f. i. on linnenon hræȝele 214, ylcan 102 and no special notice has been taken of them in the notes. Finally the use of dots over is and ys has been normalized and the accents of the text have been retained.
20. The translation is copied from Cockayne’s Leechdoms–at least where ms. O agrees with ms. V, but some alterations have been introduced to render the text with greater precision. Latin has been preferred to English where the previous editor chose to adopt it rather than offend decency, but his unnecessary archaisms have not been retained. Explanatory words are added within parentheses f. i. (a berry) 77 and those which correspond to words taken from ms. V, or are otherwise required by the text, are supplied within brackets, f. i. [aware… of thy virtues… 34].
30. In the Phonetics and Accidence I have limited myself to comparatively few examples, except where some particular point required to be insisted upon, and I have excluded from each the forms which show a peculiarity only from the point of view of the other. In the Accidence I have chosen the same word to exemplify the various cases of a noun or the various tenses of a verb wherever it was possible. When a word written in spaced italics in one of the two sections also occurs in the other, I have abstained from using that type where it was no longer justified. Of course when a word had had to be corrected in the text, it has nevertheless been quoted as it is in ms. O.
40. In the glossary the order of words is strictly alphabetical, æ being placed between ad and af; but initial
