Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Cleanness an Alliterative Tripartite Poem on the Deluge, the Destruction of Sodom, and the Death of Belshazzar
Dr. Menner does not recognize the tripartite division indicated in the ms, and states that the poem is divided by a large illuminated letter into thirteen irregular sections. Further, he subdivides the eleventh, twelfth, and last sections, and notes that 'there is no apparent reason why there should be a division at 345, 485, or 689 But I. 345 marks the beginning of Gen. Vii, marks the episode Of the Flood having subsided, and 1. 689 introduces the story Of Sodom and Gomorrah.
As regards the third main division of the poem, the first section is really introductory to the second, which deals with the story Of Belshazzar, and is a poetical paraphrase Of Daniel v.
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