sentences:  A third inscription, which occurs now on f. 15r but may originally have come before f. 3r, presents the Latin poem "Rex pius Æðelstan" ("Devout King Athelstan"), written by a continental scribe in Caroline minuscule.In the middle of the 10th century, the manuscript's portrait of St Matthew served as an exemplar for an Anglo-Saxon artist, who copied it into a manuscript which is classified today as Oxford, St John's College, MS 194.During the 11th and 12th century, blank spaces in the manuscript were used to record a number of texts in Old English and Latin bearing on the properties of Christ Church, Canterbury.