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LITERAL ENGLISH TRANSLATION

OF

KING ALFRED'S ANGLO-SAXON VERSION

OF

THE COMPENDIOUS HISTORY OF THE WORLD

BY

OROSIUS.

CONTAINING,

FACSIMILE SPECIMENS OF THE LAUDERDALE AND COTTON MSS.

AN INTRODUCTION-ON OROSIUS AND HIS WORK;

NOTES ACCOMPANYING THE TRANSLATION;

MR. HAMPSON'S ESSAY ON KING ALFRED'S GEOGRAPHY, AND

A MAP OF EUROPE, ASIA, AND AFRICA, ACCORDING TO OROSIUS
AND ALFRED.

BY

THE REV. JOSEPH BOSWORTH, D.D. F.R.S. F.S.A.

OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE:

DR. PHIL. OF LEYDEN LL.D. OF ABERDEEN: CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE
ROYAL INSTITUTE OF THE NETHERLANDS: M.R.S. OF LIT. LONDON: HONORARY
F.R.S. OF SCIENCES, NORWAY: F.S.A. COPENHAGEN: F. OF LIT. 8. LEYDEN, UTRECHT,
ROTTERDAM, BRISTOL, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, ETC.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

M DCCC L

1859

22:05. d.2

Eng Oros. T. 118 3: Bos 197,25

TO A. M. BOSWORTH,

AS A MEMORIAL OF THE VALUABLE ASSISTANCE

SHE HAS GIVEN IN COLLATING THE ANGLO-SAXON

MANUSCRIPTS OF OROSIUS, THIS LITTLE WORK IS

DEDICATED BY HER AFFECTIONATE HUSBAND,

JOSEPH BOSWORTH.

Islip, near Oxford,

July, 1855.