ABSTRACT
Abstract:ThisarticleexaminestheLatin-OldEnglishglossaryin London,B.L.MS.Harley3376,andtheevidenceitpresentsforits scholarlycompiler,hissourcesandlexicographicalmethods.Thestudy ispartofacurrentprojecttore-edittheglossaryinfull,includingtwo untruncated,detachedleaves,andpresenteachentryinthecontextof itstextualandglossarialsourcesandanalogues.Thehandwritingstyle oftheglossatorisevidentinagroupofmanuscriptswrittenatWorcesteraroundtheyear1000.Theinformalformatoftheglossarysuggeststhatitistheworkingautographofthecompilerratherthana laterscribalcopy.Theentriesderivingfromawiderangeofsources areorganisedinadvancedalphabeticalandlexicographicalorderusuallyonlyexpectedoflaterRenaissancedictionaries.Withmaterial fromhisglossarialexemplarsthecompilerblendednewentriescopied frombooksinhislibrarysuchasIsidore,Bede,Aldhelm,Persius, Prudentius,andthegrammarianFulgentius.Theseentriesinparticularprovideuniqueevidenceforthewayinwhichsuchtextswere studiedinlateAnglo-SaxonEngland.
