Preface
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The text as here printed is extracted from my edition, The Old English Elene, Phœnix, and Physiologus (Yale University Press, 1919), where a critical apparatus may be found ; here it may be sufficient to say that Italic letters in square brackets denote my emendations, and Roman letters those of previous editors. The translations have not hitherto been published, and no complete ones are extant in any language, save those contained in Thorpe's edition of the Codex Exoniensis, which appeared in 1842. The long conjectural passage in the Partridge is due wholly to Mr. Pitman.
A.S.C.
March 27, 1921.
