Genesis B, also known as The Later Genesis, is a text of Genesis, one of the poems in Old English included in the partially illustrated Junius Manuscript, which has been held in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford since 1677.
The poems in the Junius Manuscript (which was named after the scholar who owned, studied and first published the manuscript in 1655) are among the "best of the Anglo-Saxon corpus"
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