KING ALFRED'S ANGLO-SAXON VERSION OF THE COMPENDIOUS HISTORY OF THE WORLD BY OROSIUS. CONTAINING,— FACSIMILE SPECIMENS OF THE LAUDERDALE AND COTTON MSS.- A PREFACE DESCRIBING THESE MSS. etc.- AN INTRODUCTION-ON OROSIUS AND HIS WORK; THE ANGLO-SAXON TEXT; NOTES AND VARIOUS REA DINGS; A LITERAL ENGLISH TRANSLATION, WITH NOTES; MR. HAMPSON'S ESSAY ON KING ALFRED'S GEOGRAPHY, AND A MAP OF EUROPE, ASIA, AND AFRICA, ACCORDING TO OROSIUS BY THE REV. JOSEPH BOSWORTH, D.D. F.R.S. F.S.A. OF CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD: DR. PHIL. OF LEYDEN: LL.D. OF ABERDEEN: CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE LONDON LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER-ROW. M DCCC LVIII. THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE WORK. FACSIMILE SPECIMENS of the Lauderdale and Cotton MSS. Preface describing these MSS. etc. p i-lxiv. THE INTRODUCTION-An account of Orosius and his writings, MR. HAMPSON'S ESSAY on King Alfred's Geography p1-63. p 15-198. THE ILLUSTRATIONS. PLATE I and II face each other, and are placed before the title. THE FACSIMILE of p 12, from the Lauderdale MS., faces p. 34 of English translation, and p 14 naturally follows 13. PLATE III faces p. 83 of English translation. PLATE IV faces p. 33 of the Anglo-Saxon text. THE MAP of Europe, Asia, and Africa has its left margin pasted on the outer margin of the right-hand cover, and unfolds to the right, that the whole may be visible while reading the work. |