on 



of 



By E. DORAN WEBB, F.S.A. 



(Read Feb. 26th, 1900. ) 



HE Book of Cerne, now preserved in the University 

 Library at Cambridge, consists firstly of a 

 bound volume, each page of which measures 

 nine by seven inches, and, secondly, of a 

 number of loose leaves, which at present are 

 wrapped up in paper and tied to the former. 

 The oldest portion of the manuscript is 

 contained in the bound part, and consists of 

 four separate accounts of the Passion and 

 Resurrection of our Lord, taken from the Evangelists ; each 

 account is prefixed by an illuminated title page, photographs of 

 which, taken by our energetic Hon. Secretary, I have the pleasure 

 of laying before the Society. The accounts naturally vary in 

 length ; those taken from S.S. Matthew and Luke are each con- 

 tained in eighteen and a half pages, while that from S. Mark 

 occupies three pages less. 



At the back of the illuminated title page of the Passion accord- 

 ing to S. Luke is an acrostic in the form of a prayer ; taking the 

 initial letter of each line the two following words are formed : 

 AEDELVALD EPISCOPUS. Mr. Fry notes in his pamphlet 



