American Office of l'Année philologique

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These homilies (which you can explore on Digital Bodleian) were written in Old English and composed by Aelfric, Abott of Eynsham.

They contain an invocation to St. Nicholas in Netherlandish, the earliest known example of that language.
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/837c7f62-bbf6-481e-91da-833011672440/surfaces/c0437595-350a-43c9-b07f-ea40eb75f78d/

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L’Année philologique is a reference bibliography for academic publications relating to Ancient Greek and Roman Civilization. The bibliography is published in print and online. The online database including all volumes published since 1928, the publication year of the first volume, will become available on BREPOLiS from January 2018 onwards.

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