1. 1 The general metrical scheme of this piece is a stanza of eight lines of seven syllables each, but several stanzas [...] 2. 4 Lit. 'furnace,' as in lxxviii 5, 6, and elsewhere. 3. 2 Lit. 'root.' 4. 3 Stanza x, 1. 8, has only six syllables. 5. 2 Lit. 'furnace' : see lxxviii 5 f. 6. 3 Luke xxiv 39. 7. 2 Stanzas xxxi-xlii are preserved also in the upper writing of B.M. Add. 14623 : see Introduction. 8. 1 B.M. 17193 contains St. xxxiii-xlii, and B.M. Add. 14731 contains St. xxxiii-xxxvi, xli-xlii. 9. 2 Sinner] guilty, 14731. 10. 3 xxxv 3, and by that killing of Man, 17193. 4, Abel was the first killed one, 17193. 11. 4 Stanza xxxvi is legible in the Palimpsest, except the first line; it is preserved in the upper writing, also in B.[...] 12. 5 xxxvii 1. He] God, 17193 (unmetrically). 13. 1 See Vol. I, p. civ, and the Corrigenda in this volume. 14. 2 Lit. 'had been angry' ([Syriac], sic.), p. 156, 1. 30. 15. 3 Omit [Syriac] (sic), p. .156, 1. 34, so that Stanza lii, line 1, has only six syllables : see the Note at the begin[...] 16. 1 Stanzas lv and lvi together have only fourteen lines. 17. 2 Stanzas lvii and lviii together have only thirteen lines. 18. 1 Stanza lxi has nine lines. 19. 2 Stanza lxiii has only seven lines. 20. 1 Stanza lxxix has nine lines. 21. 4 John viii 51 f. 22. 5 I cannot translate this line, p. 164, 1. 24. 23. 1 For the ' Seven Limbos,' see p. 204, 1. 44 f. 24. 5 Stanzas lxxxvi-xciv are preserved also in the upper writing : see Introduction. 25. 6 injury]+then 14623 (unmetrically). 26. 7 John xi 23. 27. 1 He] our Lord, 14623 (unmetrically). 28. 2 Stanza lxxxviii is also preserved in B.M. Add. 12155 and 14532, without variation, except that 12155 reads 'He was[...] 29. 3 Stanza lxxxix has only seven lines. 30. 4 Stanza xc has ten lines. 31. 1 Stanza xciii has only seven lines. 32. 2 The first line of Stanza xciv (otherwise a regular one of eight lines) has a syllable short: see the Note at the b[...]
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