Lost 9th-century manuscript containing earliest English poem found in a Rome library

Lost 9th-century manuscript containing earliest English poem found in a Rome library

A 9th-century manuscript held in Rome has revealed the earliest known Old English poem, Caedmon’s Hymn, hidden within a copy of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

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