"The text of the poems ... has been made from the collotype reproductions of the Junius manuscript in Gollancz's 'The Caedmon manuscript' (Oxford University Press, 1927)"--Pref.
"When in 1654 Junius published at Amsterdam the poems ... he described them as a poetic paraphrase of Genesis and other parts of the Scriptures by the monk Cædmon. The manuscript now rests in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, where it is numbered Junius XI."--Introd.