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A Late Eighth-Century Latin-Anglo-Saxon Glossary Preserved in the Library of the Leiden University Jan Hendrik Hessels

A Late Eighth-Century Latin-Anglo-Saxon Glossary Preserved in the Library of the Leiden University By Jan Hendrik Hessels

A Late Eighth-Century Latin-Anglo-Saxon Glossary Preserved in the Library of the Leiden University by Jan Hendrik Hessels


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Part of the importance of this text lies in its correspondences to other medieval glossaries. Offering a complete transcription and commentary which traces sources, and with several indices, Jan Hendrick Hessels' edition, first published in 1906, is still sought after by scholars.

A Late Eighth-Century Latin-Anglo-Saxon Glossary Preserved in the Library of the Leiden University Summary

A Late Eighth-Century Latin-Anglo-Saxon Glossary Preserved in the Library of the Leiden University by Jan Hendrik Hessels

Prior to his 1890 publication of the Corpus Christi Latin-Old English MS, also reissued in this series, Jan Hendrik Hessels (1836-1926) had begun transcribing this equally important text, of which his edition was published in 1906. (He explains the delay by referring to 'work of another nature': his monumental edition of the archive of the Dutch Church in London (1887-1897), also now available in the Cambridge Library Collection.) Hessels again provides a thorough introduction, including a detailed physical description of the manuscript alongside its history, provenance, and a wealth of other information. The work contains extracts from various texts and treatises, and Hessels' cross-references to other glossaries demonstrate the importance of the Leiden MS for gloss-literature, and will be of use to philologists, scholars of Old English and medieval Latin, and historians of the medieval period.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Bibliography of the glossary; Text of the glossary; Indexes: 1. Latin index; 2. Index of Latin numerals expressed by Roman signs; 3. Greek index; 4. Hebrew index; 5. Germanic, but chiefly A-S index; Corrigenda, addenda.

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NLS9781108029094
9781108029094
1108029094
A Late Eighth-Century Latin-Anglo-Saxon Glossary Preserved in the Library of the Leiden University by Jan Hendrik Hessels
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Cambridge University Press
2011-06-16
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