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- Title
The Glossary in London, British Library, Harley 107, fol. 72v.
- Authors
Cataldi, Claudio
- Abstract
This study provides a new edition of, and commentary to, the Latin-Old English glossary preserved in London, British Library, Harley 107. This glossary, which comprises three introductory entries, a chapter on bird names, and a chapter on fish names, belongs to a group of Latin-Old English glossaries organized by subject (class glossaries), rather than alphabetically. According to scholarship, the chapter-format of Old English class glossaries echoes the form of the Greek-Latin textbooks known as Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana. In this study, I first assess the question of the tradition of the Hermeneumata in England, followed by an overview of the sources behind the compilation of the glossary in Harley 107. I conclude with an edition of the glossary, with notes on each entry. These notes provide parallels with possible sources and related glossaries. In particular, I focus on the parallels between the glossary in Harley 107, on the one hand, and the Épinal-Erfurt Glossary and the Corpus Glossary, on the other.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; BRITISH Library; SCHOLARSHIPS; ENGLISH glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; OLD English authors
- Publication
Neophilologus, 2023, Vol 107, Issue 4, p659
- ISSN
0028-2677
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11061-023-09772-x