The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

London, British Library, Royal 7. D. ii

Glosses in OE, Latin and French

Date: s. xiimed

Summary:

Manuscript contains a number of texts in Latin written in s.xiimed, including Cassiodorus, De anima. The beginning of an alphabetical glossary is on fols 18v-19v, and this is glosses interlinearly in English, Latin and French. From St Augustine’s, Canterbury.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fols 18v-19v

   Title (D.20): Alphabetical glossary (A-C only)

   Incipit: (18v) Acrifolus .holen

   Explicit: (19v) bardioriolus colmase.

   Text Language: Latin and English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 258

   Meritt 1945, no. 69

Administration Information:

Described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistance of Hollie Morgan and George Younge, with reference to published scholarship; ed. by Takako Kato (2010; 2013).

Bibliography:

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 258

Meritt, Herbert Dean, Old English Glosses, The Modern Language Association of America, General Series, xvi (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1945)