Épinal-Erfurt glossary

The Épinal-Erfurt glossary is a glossary of terms. It consists of two manuscripts (Épinal and Erfurt), and contains terms in Old English.[1]

It has been described as "The earliest body of written English",[2] and is thought to have been compiled at Malmesbury for Aldhelm (c. 639-709).[3]

Two manuscripts of the Glossary exist today: one in the Bibliothèque Municipale of Épinal, France, which was written in Southumbria in the last quarter of the 7th century and one in the Wissenschaftliche Allgemeinbibliothek of Erfurt, Germany, written at Cologne Cathedral in the first half of the 9th century.[4]

Henry Sweet published an edition of the Glossary in 1885 in The Oldest English Texts (Early English Text Society), reprinted in 1938, 1957 and 1966. J. D. Pheifer published Old English Glosses in the Epinal-Erfurt Glossary (Clarendon Press, ISBN 0198111649) in 1974.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Pheifer, J. D. (1974). Old English Glosses in the Épinal-Erfurt Glossary. Oxford University Press.
  2. 1 2 Brown, Alan K. (October 1977). "Reviewed Work: Old English Glosses in the Epinal-Erfurt Glossary by J. D. Pheifer". Speculum. 52 (4): 1031–1037. doi:10.2307/2855442. JSTOR 2855442.
  3. ↑ Gretsch, Mechthild (2013). "Literacy and the uses of the vernacular". In Godden, Malcolm; Lapidge, Michael. The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature. CUP. p. 278. ISBN 9780521193320.
  4. ↑ Lapidge, Michael (2008). "The Career of Aldhelm". In Godden, Malcolm; Keynes, Simon. Anglo Saxon England: Vol 36. Cambridge UP. p. 35. ISBN 9780521883436.


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