A second beta version of the Digital Vercelli Book is now available for everybody to browse and study! Full announcement here: http://vbd.humnet.unipi.it/?p=2067.

The new URL is http://vbd.humnet.unipi.it/beta2/, visit this page to start with The Dream of the Rood: http://vbd.humnet.unipi.it/beta2/#doc=DOTR&page=VB_fol_104v.

There are many new items to check in this version: *all of the manuscript images* are now online, *four more texts* were added to the edition (Homilies I, II and III, and the Soul and Body poem), there now is a *search engine*, complete with a virtual keyboard for special Old English characters, and several other improvements to the whole edition.

Any comments, suggestions or bug reports will be more than welcome.

RRDT