Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 144: The Corpus Glossary

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 144: The Corpus Glossary
Alternate Title:
Glossaria
Language:
Latin and English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
Extent:
ff. 65 + 3
Dimensions:
320 Height (mm) and 235 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 700 A.D. - 799 A.D.]
Provenance:
From St Augustine's, Canterbury. On f. 1*r is: Di(st) XI Gra 1 retro (possibly, as Hessels read, retus, for retrorsus, but I think the letter is a rough o). elucidacio quarundam parcium cum A. liber S. Aug. Cant. Not in the old catalogue: no. 1350 is Liber de obstrusis sermonibus parcium 2 fo. omnes D. (blank) G. (blank) but the 2nd folio does not correspond.
Table of contents:
  • Interpretations of Hebrew and Greek Names
  • Glossary in Latin and Old English, alphabetised by first two letters
  • Institutiones grammaticae (excerpt from book 2)
Description:
The Corpus Glossary, CCCC MS 144, written in the early ninth century, is an early witness to the Old English language, and also attests to Latin learning in England at this time. It contains several glossaries; most of the glosses are in Latin, but there are over 2000 in Old English. It is written in a beautiful Anglo-Saxon Hybrid Minuscule, with some typically Insular decoration of initials. The manuscript also has two flyleaves at the end from an Irish manuscript of a treatise on grammar by Priscian (fl. c. 500) written in Gaelic National Hand, probably in the twelfth century.
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