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

In his 1906 edition of this important glossary, with comprehensive editorial material, Hessels made accessible a significant philological source.

Jan Hendrik Hessels (Edited by)

9781108029094, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 June 2011

308 pages, 1 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm, 0.39 kg

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.

Introduction
Bibliography of the glossary
Text of the glossary
Indexes: 1. Latin index
2. Index of Latin numerals expressed by Roman signs
3. Greek index
4. Hebrew index
5. Germanic, but chiefly A-S index
Corrigenda, addenda.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]