Accompanying the study of the glosses is an Appendix which contains the lexical glosses found in this Cambridge manuscript. [...] I gratefully acknowledge the financial assistance received from the University of British Columbia's Research Grant program, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Canadian Federation for the Humanities. [...] Such an examination can show the scope of learning of the Anglo-Saxons, with the caveat, however, that the Anglo- Saxon glossator may have excerpted, let us say, an Isidorian quote not directly from the Etymologiarum libri but from the manuscript from which he copied the text. [...] The strongest concentration of glosses in parts 2 and 3 is in Greek texts (e.g., the gloss translates the Greek Creed on f. 42Iv into Latin) and in "Hisperic" works (e.g., Abbo of St. [...] LAY-OUT AND HANDS OF THE GLOSSES 7 this word rather early because already in the fourth century we find a glossary containing biblical terms compiled by the Alexandrian lexicogra- pher Hesychius.37 Since the biblical gloss is "one or more words, usually a few, added in the margin or between the lines of a text, in explanation of an obscure word" (AOT, p. 516) the practice of glossing manuscripts m
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgment 7
- Abbreviations 10
- Introduction 12
- A. Scope and Purpose of the Study 12
- B. Arator and Prudentius in Anglo-Saxon England 15
- C. Description of Arator and Prudentius in Gg.5.35 16
- D. Short History and Definition of the Term "Gloss" 17
- E. Lay-Out and Hands of the Glosses 18
- F. Source of the Glosses in Arator and Prudentius 20
- G. Categorizing the Glosses 23
- H. Statistical Evaluation of the Numbers of Glosses in Arator and Prudentius 24
- I. Method of Presentation of the Glosses 25
- J. Order of Presentation of the Glosses 26
- 1. Glosses on Prosody 27
- A. Accentual Marks 27
- B. Glosses on the Length of Syllables 33
- C. Glosses on Metre and Poetic Technique 34
- 2. Lexical Glosses 37
- A. Definition of a Lexical Gloss 37
- B. Context and Lexical Glosses 40
- C. Peculiar Features of the Lexical Glosses 43
- D. Lexical Glosses and the Language of Arator and Prudentius 46
- E. Lexical Glosses and the Editions of A and P 49
- F. General Nature of the Lexical Glosses 50
- G. Lexical Glosses and Differentiae 50
- H. Paraphrase Glosses 53
- I. The Purpose of Lexical Glosses 55
- 3. Grammatical Glosses 58
- A. Grammatical Terminology 60
- B. Grammatical Glosses on the Noun 62
- C. Grammatical Glosses on the Pronoun 72
- D. Grammatical Glosses on the Verb 88
- E. Grammatical Glosses on the Adverb 101
- F. Grammatical Glosses on the Conjunction 105
- G. Grammatical Glosses on the Preposition 106
- H. Grammatical Glosses on the Interjection 107
- 4. Syntactical Glosses 109
- A. Syntactical Glosses Using Symbols 109
- B. Syntactical Glosses Using Words 118
- 5. Commentary Glosses 158
- A. Interpretative Glosses 158
- B. Glosses Summarizing the Content 172
- C. The Quia Glosses 174
- D. Miscellaneous Other Commentary Glosses 176
- E. Etymological Glosses 179
- F. Encyclopedic Glosses 191
- G. Source Glosses 196
- Conclusion 202
- Appendix: The Glosses 210
- Bibliography 284
- Index 292
- A 292
- B 292
- C 292
- D 293
- E 293
- F 293
- G 293
- H 294
- I 294
- J 294
- K 294
- L 294
- M 295
- N 295
- O 295
- P 295
- Q 296
- R 296
- S 296
- T 296
- U 296
- V 296
- W 297
- Z 297
