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Cynelicu bōc is geƿrit gegeafen of þæm ƿealdende þærbe geaf he sundorriht oððe scīr to man oððe lichād. Cyningas nyttaþ bēc to gestaðolenne miclan gildas to bysne sƿa ceastre (mid burgbōcum) oððe eormengyldas and gelǣred fērscipas. Bēc sind mæror þon ƿunelicu geƿritas siððan cynelicu bōc hæfþ ēce gefremniss.

Oftost is Cynelicu Bōc geƿriten as a high-quality geƿeorc of handgeƿritcræfte on bōcfelle. Bretta cyningas and cƿēna and hiera foregengan habbaþ gebōcod mār þon 980 cynelican bēc. Of þissum ymbe 750 bēc abidaþ in existence. Sēo ǣrreste is sēo cynelice bōc to Tægn þære byrig gegeafen in 1066, þærof is hēo Scotlandes ieldste Cynelicu Burh, þan þære cynelicu bōc of Grantanbrygce Eormengield in 1231. Ælc gear gebōceþ sēo Bretta Cƿēn bēc to ƿeorðigum gyldum and burgum.

Siððan þære Middleyldum in Europan habbaþ bregas gegiefen bēc to gesceappenne ceastre, se is byrig mid rihte and sundrorrihtum, and man mōt secgan þe þære bēc dæg is þære ceatre staðoldæg, būtan þe sƿylc stōƿ ƿæs ærror tūn.

Ær ƿæs cynelicu bōc sēo ān ƿīse þærbe mōt gyld oððe tēoh ƿeard rihtlic, ac in todæges ceapfulle ƿorulde sind oþra ƿīse.

Ūtƿeard hlencas 

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Sēo Cynelice bōc þæs BBC
Sēo Cynelice bōc þære Australiscan Academie þāra Manlārcræfta 
Sēo Cynelice bōc þæs Beormingaham Eormengyldes 
Sēo Cynelice bōc of Roðos Īeg and Providence Landsetung (1663)
Ceapmenn þæs Stapol of Englalande

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