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Isidore's Etymologiae at the school of Canterbury

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 November 2014

David W. Porter
David W. Porter*
Affiliation:
Southern University, Baton Rouge
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Abstract

This article demonstrates that some 180 of the 2,400 text glosses in the ‘Leiden Glossary’ derive from an epitome of the Etymologiae. A reconstruction of this lost source shows that it consisted of abbreviated entries from all twenty of Isidore's books, with selected books heavily glossed in Old English. Mirroring the encyclopedic scope of the Etymologiae, this seventh-century epitome was extensively excerpted by glossary-compilers and gave thousands of English words their first written form.

Type
Research Article
Information
Anglo-Saxon England , Volume 43 , December 2014 , pp. 7 - 44
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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