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APPENDIX


GENERAL RELATION OF FOUR EARLIEST TEXTS

Generally speaking, the text of V (together with the parts supplied from W as printed in this book) includes the whole of W, X, and U. Allowing 8 words per line in the case of V and W, and 7 words per line in the case of X and U, the amount of matter in each appears to work out thus :—

V. 84 pages, 25 lines per page =2,100 lines= 16,800 words. Adding the parts supplied from W, viz. 41 pages, 21 lines per page + 72 lines = 933 lines = 7,464 words, we obtain a total of 16,800 + 7,464= 24,264 words.
W. 140 pages, 21 lines per page + 34 lines = 2,974 lines = 23,792 words.
X. 114 pages, 20 lines per page + 7 lines = 2,287 lines = 16,009 words.
U. 120 pages[1], 1 8 lines per page = 2,160 lines = 15,120 words.

They all agree as to the general arrangement of their subject-matter, beginning with the laws of the court, and then the laws of the gwlad, and confining the triads of law towards the close ; but the most cursory examination will show great divergences in the arrangement of details, strikingly so with regard to X. The explanation of these divergences possibly

  1. This of course excludes the last sixteen folios of the old handwriting, which form no part of the Book of Cyvnerth properly so called.