The Dream of the Rood survives in only one manuscript from the medieval period, known as the Vercelli Book. See Topics for more information on the manuscript. The lines of text in the manuscript do not correspond to the lines we have in modern editions of the Dream of the Rood. The scribes in the Anglo-Saxon period wrote the text continuously, and did not break it into the poetic lines. There is little punctuation, but what there is does seem to mark metrical units. Some texts mark them much more consistently. Notice that word division is erratic and that words can be split over line endings. A transliteration of part of the manuscrupt can be found in the Diplomatic text.