Old English Glosses
Chiefly Unpublished (Classic Reprint)
Description:... Excerpt from Old English Glosses: Chiefly Unpublished The glosses are here printed from nineteen of these. From two further mss. Glosses have already been published, viz. The Brussels and Salisbury mss. (cp. P. Xxiii, notes 1 and Both these glossaries are quoted as Cl.
As I pointed out in the Academy, May 12, 1894, p. 399, Aldhelm glosses are to be found in the Corpus Glossary', as well as amongst the glosses from ms. Harley 3376 printed in ww. 192-247 in proof of which I give a few instances below. In choosing the examples I have confined myself almost entirely to inflected forms, as these have naturally more weight than uninflected ones. The great majority of instances in the Corpus Glossary are peculiar to that glossary and are not found amongst the Epinal Erfurt Glosses, and this shows that the scribe of the former got them from an independent source; but the asterisked ones, which occur in the ep.-erf. Glossaries, prove that another and independent Aldhelm glossary was one of the sources of the archetype of ep.-erf. And Corpus.
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