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Anglo-Saxon Glosses and Grammars

Patrizia Lendinara

subject

HistoryAnglo saxonLinguistics

description

This chapter surveys Old English glosses of Latin works in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and discusses the format of glosses, the types of texts that were glossed, hermeneutic texts, merographs, dry-point glosses, glossae collectae, class glossaries, and alphabetical glossaries. The author also treats the production and study of grammar in Anglo-Saxon England, touching on the works of Bede, Tatwine, Boniface, Alcuin, Priscian, and Aelfric.

https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195336948.013.21