The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Norfolk Rolls 81

Glossary in Latin and OE

Date: s. xii

Summary:

Main text is a roll of charters of Holme St Benets of s. xii. On the dorse is a glossary, mainly Latin-Latin, but including what Ker (1957, p. 426) estimates to be ‘about a dozen’ Old English glosses. Written at Holme St Benets.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: dorse

   Title (D.27): Latin-Old English Glossary

   Incipit: (dorse) flod ['flod' is the first legible Old English word. The beginning of the text is badly rubbed.]

   Explicit: (dorse) blodsex

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 347

Administration Information:

Manuscript described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistance of Hollie Morgan, with reference to published scholarship.

Bibliography:

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 347.