Old English Manuscripts

There are four major extant manuscripts/codices of Old English literature and poetry: the Exeter Book, the Beowulf Manuscript (Nowell Codex), the Vercelli Book, and the Junius Manuscript. Can you name the contents of these four manuscripts?

MS = manuscript

Source 1: wikipedia.org/wiki/Exeter_Book; Source 2: wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowell_Codex; Source 3: wikipedia.org/wiki/Vercelli_Book; Source 4: wikipedia.org/wiki/Junius_manuscript

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Manuscript	Content
Exeter Book	Christ I, II, III
Exeter Book	Guthlac A & B
Exeter Book	Azarias
Exeter Book	The Phoenix
Exeter Book	Juliana
Exeter Book	The Wanderer
Exeter Book	The Gifts of Men
Exeter Book	Precepts
Exeter Book	The Seafarer
Exeter Book	Vainglory
Exeter Book	Widsith
Exeter Book	The Fortunes of Men
Exeter Book	Maxims I
Exeter Book	The Order of the World
Exeter Book	The Rhyming Poem
Exeter Book	The Panther
Exeter Book	The Whale
Exeter Book	The Partridge
Exeter Book	Soul and Body II
Exeter Book	Deor
Exeter Book	Wulf and Eadwacer
Exeter Book	Riddles 1-57/59
Exeter Book	The Wife's Lament
Exeter Book	The Judgement Day I
Exeter Book	Resignation
Exeter Book	The Descent into Hell
Exeter Book	Alms-Giving
Exeter Book	Pharoah
Exeter Book	The Lord's Prayer I
Exeter Book	Homiletic Fragment II
Exeter Book	Riddle 28b/30b
Exeter Book	Riddle 58/60
Exeter Book	The Husband's Message
Exeter Book	The Ruin
Exeter Book	Riddles 59-91/61-95
Beowulf MS	Augustine's Soliloquies
Beowulf MS	Gospel of Nicodemus
Beowulf MS	Solomon and Saturn
Beowulf MS	Saint Quentin
Beowulf MS	Saint Christopher
Beowulf MS	Wonders of the East
Beowulf MS	Letter of Alexander to Aristotle
Beowulf MS	Beowulf
Beowulf MS	Judith
Vercelli Book	Andreas
Vercelli Book	The Fates of the Apostles
Vercelli Book	Soul and Body
Vercelli Book	Dream of the Rood
Vercelli Book	Elene
Vercelli Book	Homiletic Fragment
Junius MS	Genesis A & B
Junius MS	Exodus
Junius MS	Daniel
Junius MS	Christ and Satan