Junius MS. 37. The volume is frequently called Codex Vossianus, from its having been in the possession of Isaac Voss, who gave it to Junius. Facsimiles are given by Professor Westwood, in his Palæographia Sacra, and in his new and splendid book of Fac-similes of the Miniatures and Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon and Irish MSS[381].
3. The Four Gospels, in Latin, written in Anglo-Saxon characters, about the beginning of the eleventh century.
Noticed in Westwood's Miniatures, &c. (ut supra), p. 123.
It appears to have belonged to the abbey at Barking, a gift of tithes at Laleseie, by Adam, son of Leomar de Cochefeld, being entered on a leaf at the end by order of the abbess Ælfgiva. Now numbered Bodl. 155.
4. The famous Anglo-Saxon metrical paraphrase of parts of Genesis, Exodus, Daniel, &c. by Cædmon[382]; illustrated, as far as Abraham's journey into Egypt, with a very curious series of drawings.
The MS. is considered to have been written about A.D. 1000. The latest description of the volume is in Westwood's magnificent book of Fac-similes. See p. [102].
5. The Psalter, Canticles, &c., in Latin, with a Calendar; written in the first half of the eleventh century.
Noticed in Westwood's Miniatures and Ornaments, &c., p. 122. Douce, 296.
6. A twelfth-century volume containing, besides various historical works, a Bestiary, or Natural History of Beasts, illustrated with very curious drawings.
Given by Archbp. Laud.