title: The Great Rejected Books of the Biblical Apocrypha (Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, Vol. 14) (Sacred Books & Early Literature of the East)
author: Charles F. Horne
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zlib_text: Among the twenty-two books which comprise the Avian Apocrypha, the one which
  has been called by certain scholars "Old Peter's Tale" and by others "The Book
  of Gyre," has always occupied a place somewhat apart from the rest.
  
  Recent close textual and stylistic analysis by Professor P. J. Hollins and
  others would appear to have confirmed the presence of no fewer than three
  distinct contributing hands, at least two of which have been confidently
  identified with the anonymous authors of "The Book of Morfedd" and "Orgen's
  Dream."
  
  In electing to offer to a wider public his new version compiled from the three
  earliest extant manuscripts I have purposely eschewed the two titles by which
  the work is generally familiar and have chosen instead that under which the
  story appears in the "Carlisle m.s." (circa A.D. 3300).
  
  RJ.C.
  
  St. Malcolm's College,
  
  Oxford.
  
  June, 3798.
  
  PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN
  
  Richard Cowper
  
  1975
  
  Contents
  
   **PROLOGUE**
  
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