Further Evidence for Knowledge of Werferth’s Translation of Gregory’s Dialogues at Canterbury around 1200

ON fol. I34r of London, British Library, Royal l A. xiv, a copy of the West-Saxon Gospels made in the second half of the twelfth century, appear two pen trials, hitherto unsourced.1 The first, 'sodlice ^e syn', was presumably copied from the opening of Lk 24.48 on the facing verso (Sodlice ^e synt (n^e 3epiten, 'truly you are witnesses of things'), but the second, 'see GREGORIES se mid grecum crissostomas ys haten', comes from the first sentence of the Preface to Book II of Werferth's translation of Gregory's Dialogues:2