A Late Eighth-Century Latin-Anglo-Saxon Glossary Preserved in the Library of the Leiden University

Jan Hendrik Hessels (Curatore)

Cambridge University Press, 2011

Prior to his 1890 publication of the Corpus Christi Latin-Old English MS, also reissued in this series, Jan Hendrik Hessels (1836-1926) had begun transcribing this equally important text, of which his edition was published in 1906. (He explains the delay by referring to 'work of another nature': his monumental edition of the archive of the Dutch Church in London (1887-1897), also now available in the Cambridge Library Collection.) Hessels again provides a thorough introduction, including a detailed physical description of the manuscript alongside its history, provenance, and a wealth of other information. The work contains extracts from various texts and treatises, and Hessels' cross-references to other glossaries demonstrate the importance of the Leiden MS for gloss-literature, and will be of use to philologists, scholars of Old English and medieval Latin, and historians of the medieval period.

• Curatore: Jan Hendrik Hessels
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History
• Anno: 2011
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 308 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Peso: 390 gr.
• EAN: 9781108029094

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