Studies in Early Medieval Latin Glossaries

Wallace Martin Lindsay, Michael Lapidge

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781040240106
• Edition: 0
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

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 But they are also very difficult to access: countless glossaries lie unpublished in manuscript, the relations between them are unknown, and their origins are obscure.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 these problems was made by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1858-1937), one of the greatest classical scholars ever produced in the British Isles, who in a pioneering series of articles identified the principal glossaries and clarified their relationships; he subsequently oversaw their publication in Glossaria Latina. So comprehensive was Lindsay's work that the subject virtually stood still for half a century; but recent advances in paleography and Insular Latin studies have drawn scholarly attention to glossaries once again. Any future work on glossaries must be based on Lindsay's pioneering articles; to facilitate such work, these articles have been provided with comprehensive indices of the Latin lemmata and sources of the glossaries, together with an account of recent work on medieval glossaries.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• I Preface to Ancient Lore in Medieval Latin Glossaries
• II Note on the Use of Glossaries for the Dictionary of Medieval Latin
• III The Shorter Glosses of Placidus
• IV The ‘Abolita’ Glossary (Vat. Lat. 3321)
• V The St Gall Glossary
• VI The Affatim Glossary and Others
• VII The Abstrusa Glossary and the Liber Glossarum
• VIII The Festus-Glosses of the Abolita Glossary
• IX The Philoxenus Glossary
• X The Cyrillus Glossary and Others
• XI The Corpus, Épinal, Erfurt and Leyden Glossaries
• XII The Festus Glosses in a Monte Cassino MS. (No. 90)
• XIII Festus, De Verb. Signif. 284, 30
• XIV ‘Glossae Collectae’ in Vat. Lat. 1469.
• XV Columba’s Altus and the Abstrusa Glossary
• XVI Virgil Scholia in the Ansileubus Glossary
• XVII Gleanings from Glossaries and Scholia
• XVIII Review of Glossaria Latina, vols. I-III
• XIX Review of Glossaria Latina, vols. IV-V
• Index of Lemmata
• Index of Sources
• General Index