Old and Middle English C.890-C.1400

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St Petersburg, Saltykov-Schedrin Public Library, Q. v. I. 18, contains at the bottom of f. 1071 arguably the earliest surviving written record of oral Old English poetry: Caedmon's Hymn.

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