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Historiated initial 'U' with angel holding a book, in BL MS. Arundel 16, f. 1. The text is Osbern's Epistola de vita S. Dunstani (Life of St. Dunstan). The manuscript dates back to the last quarter of the 11th century or first quarter of the 12th…

British Library MS. Arundel 155: Psalter and prayers ('The Eadui Psalter', 'The Arundel Psalter') On f. 9v, an angel hands St. Pachomius a scroll containing the Easter tables (for the calculation of the date of Easter). The words on the scroll…

D words in Old English: defined and illustrated with copious citations from Old English texts. Published 1984.

The main workroom at the Dictionary of Old English. This office houses the DOE's drafting editors and the DOE's library of editions, reference works, and manuscript facsimiles.

The main search screen of the Dictionary of Old English allows users to search the dictionary by headword (word defined in the dictionary), attested spellings, usage patterns, even by subject (legal, medical, historical).

The DOE's emblem is a wyrm. How did the DOE choose its emblem animal?

Antonette diPaolo Healey and Alex Fleck

The entrance to the Dictionary of Old English: abandon eal hyht, you who enter here.

The DOE has its own library of editions and facsimiles of Old English texts and manuscripts, as well as an extensive collection of scholarly materials. Also in the collection, courage in desperate straits: "Hige sceal the heardra, heorte the…

Image created with Wordle. Lemmatization is the process through which lexicographers assign word forms to a certain headword. For example, Modern English word forms such as burn, burns, burning, and burned all belong to the word to burn. Old English…