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13. Sawyer 1045. SEM (560,308) C13b2. Conflated as ##1400. LAEME Corpus. 3SIO45Fft.
14. Stowe 34: Vices and Virtues, hand A. SEM (547,207) C13a1. cf. Holthausen (Part 2). vvat.
15. Trinity Homilies XXXII, hand B. SEM (571,267) C12b2. Conflated as ##1300. LAEME Corpus; cf. Morris (OEH, vol. 53: Text XXXII).