1st Edition
Studies in Early Medieval Latin Glossaries
416 Pages
by
Routledge
416 Pages
by
Routledge
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Glossaries are one of the most important sources for our knowledge of early medieval schools, for they provide an accurate records of what texts were studied and how they were understood. But they are also very difficult to access: countless glossaries lie unpublished in manuscript, the relations between them are unknown, and their origins are obscure. The most important contribution to solving... Read more
Contents: Foreword; Preface to Ancient Lore in Medieval Latin Glossaries; Note on the use of glossaries for the dictionary of Medieval Latin; The shorter glosses of Placidus; The 'Abolita' glossary (Vat. Lat. 3321); The St. Gall glossary; The Affatim glossary and others; The Abstrusa glossary and the Liber glossarum; The Festus-glosses of the Abolita glossary; The Philoxenus glossary; The Cyrillus glossary and others; The Corpus, Épinal, Erfurt and Leyden glossaries; The Festus glosses in a Monte Cassino MS. (No. 90); Festus, De Verb. Signif. 284, 30; 'Glossae collectae' in Vat. lat. 1469; Columba’s Altus and the Abstrusa glossary; Virgil scholia in the Ansileubus glossary; Gleanings from glossaries and scholia; Review of Glossaria Latina, vols. I-III; Review of Glossaria Latina, vols. IV-V; Indexes.
Biography
Wallace Martin Lindsay, Michael Lapidge
