The ÃÂpinal-Erfurt glossary is a glossary of Old English. It survives in two manuscripts (from ÃÂpinal and Erfurt). It has been described as "the earliest body of written English", and is thought to have been compiled at Malmesbury for Aldhelm (c. 639âÂÂ709).
Manuscripts
Two main manuscripts of the Glossary exist today:
- , ÃÂpinal, France, Bibliothèque municipale, MS72 (2), fols. 94âÂÂ107, around the turn of the seventh to eighth centuries, England (perhaps specifically Southumbria).
- Erfurt, Germany, Wissenschaftliche Bibliothek, MS Amplonianus, MS 2<sup>o</sup>42, fols. 1âÂÂ14v, from the first quarter of the ninth century. (This contains other glossaries too; the one shared with the ÃÂpinal manuscript is known as "Erfurt I".)
However, parts of the glossary are also found in other manuscripts, most importantly the Second Corpus Glossary, which contains amidst other glosses a complete text of the ÃÂpinal-Erfurt Glossary, descended independently from a common exemplar.
Facsimiles
- The ÃÂpinal Glossary, Latin and Old English, ed. by Henry Sweet, Early English Text Society, o.s. 79b (London: Trübner, 1883).
- Bischoff, Bernhard, Mildred Budny, Geoffrey Harlow, M. B. Parkes and J. D. Pheifer (eds), The ÃÂpinal, Erfurt, Werden, and Corpus Glossaries: ÃÂpinal Bibliothèque Municipale 72 (2), Erfurt Wissenschaftliche Bibliothek Amplonianus 2o 42, Düsseldorf Universitätsbibliothek Fragm. K 19: Z 9/1, Munich Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Cgm. 187 III (e.4), Cambridge Corpus Christi College 144, Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, 22 (Copenhagen, 1988).
- Online facsimile of the ÃÂpinal MS.
Editions
- The Oldest English Texts, ed. by Henry Sweet, Early English Text Society, o. s. 83 (London: Oxford University Press, 1885), pp. 35âÂÂ107.
- âÂÂThe ÃÂpinal Glossary, Edited with Critical Commentary of the VocabularyâÂÂ, ed. by A. K. Brown, 3 vols (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 1969).
- Old English Glosses in the Epinal-Erfurt Glossary, ed. by J. D. Pheifer (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974), .
- The ÃÂpinal-Erfurt Glossary Project: A Critical Edition of the ÃÂpinal-Erfurt Glossary, ed. by Michael W. Herren, David W. Porter, Hans Sauer (Toronto: The Dictionary of Old English, 2019-).
Commentaries
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