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In all cases we have filmed the best available copy. Uni International 300 N. ZEEB RD„ ANN ARBOR, Ml 48106 8128953 Am sler , D orothy Lee INSULAR INTERPOLATIONS IN THE ABA VUS GLOSSARY OF LEIDEN VOSSIANUS LATIN FOLIO 24 The Ohio State University Ph.D. 1981 University Microfilms I n ter nati O n al 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 Copyright 1981 by Amsler, Dorothy Lee All Rights Reserved INSULAR INTERPOLATIONS IN THE ABAVUS GLOSSARY OF LEIDEN VOSSIANUS LATIN FOLIO 24 DISSERTATION Presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of the Ohio State University By Dorothy Lee Amsler, B.A., M.A. * * * * The Ohio State University 1981 Reading Committee: Approved By Professor Alan K. Brown Professor John B. Gabel Professor Christian K. Zacher Adviser Department of English ACKNOWLEDGMENTS For his helpful suggestions and his generosity in procuring microfilm copies of manuscripts, I am indebted to Professor Alan K. Brown. I also owe thanks to the staff of the University of Delaware's Interlibrary Loan Office for their patience in ordering books. My greatest debt is to my husband, Mark, without whose more than equal sharing of house and child care this dissertation would not have been possible. 11. VITA July 9, 1946. Bom - Fairmont, West Virginia 1971.............................. B.A., Alverno College, Milwaukee W isconsin 1972-1975 ................. Research Assistant, Department of E nglish, The Ohio S ta te U n iv ersity , Columbus, Ohio 1973.............................. M.A., The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 1975-1976 ................. Teaching Associate, Department of E nglish, The Ohio S ta te U n iv ersity , Columbus, Ohio FIELDS OF STUDY Major Field: English Studies in Old English. Professor Alan K. Brown Studies in Middle English. Professor Christian K. Zacher Studies in Textual Editing. Professor John B. Gabel Studies in Medieval Latin. Professor Carl Schiam XXX TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.................................................................... i i VITA.............................................................................................. i i i LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS.............................................. v INTRODUCTION............................................................................. 1 TEXT AND COMMENTARY........................................................... 56 APPENDIXES................................................................................. I. Bern 236 Additions ............................................... 136 II. Abavus Parallels ................................................... 139 INDEX OF OLD ENGLISH INTERPRETATIONS.......................... 154 BIBLIOGRAPHY............................................................................. 156 XV LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS Abbreviations used most frequently in the introduction and commentary are given here. Consult the bibliography for full references. AA AA Glossary (GL V, 159-388) Ab Absens Ab Absens Glossary (CGL IV, 404-427). Abba Abba G lossary (GL V, 15-143). Abol. Abolita Glossary (GL III, 97-183). A b str. Abstrusa Glossary (Œ, III, 1-90). Aen. Vergil's Aeneid (Servius' Commentary). Aenig. Aldhelm, Aenigmata. A ff. Affatim Glossary (CGL IV, 471-581). Amp I I Second Amplonian (Erfurt) Glossary (CGL V, 259-337). Ars Phocae Phocas' Grammar (K e il, Grammatici L a tin i V, 410-441). BT, BTS Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary and Supplement. CEEL W. M. Lindsay, ed.. The Corpus. Epirial. Erfurt, and Leiden Glossaries. CGL Georg Goetz, ed.. Corpus Glossariorum Latino rum. Cot. Cleo. A III The Cleopatra Glossaries (WW 338-473; 258-283; and 474-477/27). Cp W. M. Lindsay, ed.. The Corpus Glossary. De N at. Rerum Isidore, De Natura Rerum Liber. De V irg. Aldhelm, De V irginitate. D if. Isidore, Differentiae sive de Pror p r ie ta te Sermonum l i b r i duo. EE Epinal-Erfurt (First Amplonian) Glossary (Brown). Etym. Isidore, Etymologae. Œ W. M. Lindsay, ed. Glossaria Latina. HGOE H. D. Meritt, Some of the Hardest Glosses are in Old English. I n s tr . I I Eucherius, Instructiones ad SaIonium l i b r i duo. Interp. Norn. Heb. Jerome, Liber De Nominibus Hebraicis. Ld 69 J. H. Hessels, A Late Eighth-Century Latin - Anglo-Saxon Glossary. L ib . G los. Liber Glossarum (GL I, 15-604). PEG A. Napier, ed.. Old English Glosses. GEGC H. D. M erritt, ed.. Old English Glosses (A Collection). PL J. P. Migne. ed.. Patrologiae Cursus Completus: Series Latina. Sang. 912 Sangall 912 Glossary (CGL IV, 202-298). Vix. m . Jerome, Liber de Viris 11lustribus. W T. Wright and R. P. Wülcker, Anglo- Saxon and Old English Vocabularies. VI INTRODUCTION I . MANUSCRIPTS Codex Leiden Vossianus Lat. Fol. 24, a Continental manuscript of the early tenth century, holds much interest for the student of Old English. The manuscript consists of several glossaries, the first of which (fols. 1-87) is an alphabetical glossary of the type called Abavus Major by Georg Goetz, interpolated with early Insular Latin glosses and some Old English, and expanded by glosses from Saint Jerome. This glossary consists of some 35,000 lines. The remainder of the manuscript contains glosses on the works of Eucherius, the Synonyma of Cicero, an alphabetical vocabu­ lary of denominationes, short glosses on the Bible, the Catalogua of Saint Jerome, Biblical weights. Scriptural names, and the second book of Eucherius' Instructiones. The whole has been described by Eduard Sievers in Die A1thochdeutschen Glossen^ and by Georg Goetz in Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum. 2Because the manuscript contains some Old English glosses, it has also been noted by N. R. Ker (App. 17).^ Not much is known of the history of Leiden Voss. 24. The manuscript was part of the collection of Isaac Vossius 2 (1618-1689), who dedicated many years of his life to seeking out valuable manuscripts for himself and for Queen Christina of Sweden. At his death, Vossius' library numbered 762 manuscripts; these were sold to the University of Leiden on October 10, 1710.^ The Leiden 24 manuscript remains at that institution today. Leiden 24 has not been dated with certainty. Ker (App. 17) and Rudolf Thurneysen place the manuscript in the ninth century, while Steinmeyer and Sievers, Otto B. Schlutter, Herbert Dean M eritt, Goetz, and Gustav Loewe assign it to the tenth century. ^ The script in Leiden 24 is typical of the Carolingien minuscule book-hand of the late ninth and early tenth centuries. According to Sir Edward Maunde Thomp­ son, this period is a particularly difficult one for dating manuscripts on paleographical evidence alone because there is much switching back and forth between early and late forms of letters such as a and which are usually very useful in determ ining th e age o f a given te x t. Thompson says th a t "as a general rule, in the latter century the writing may be classed as of a thinner type, the clubbing of the vertical main strokes not so pronounced, open a less frequently employed, and the bows of the letter g showing a tendency to close up."^ Bern 236, a cognate manuscript which contains much the same material as Leiden 24, is dated internally (fol. 3) at 911. Bern, too, is written in Carolingien book-hand and 3 while there is no direct relation between the manuscripts, the sim ilarities in the two texts would indicate that they were not written that far apart. In any case, there does not seem to be any reason to place Leiden 24 very far back into the ninth century; a date somewhere around the beginning of the tenth century seems most reasonable. Until now, very little material from Leiden 24 has been published. In 1899, Rudolf Thurneysen noted ten (mostly marginal) glosses in Old Breton.^ These were edited with extensive commentary by Leon Fleuriot in his Dictionnaire O des gloses en vieux breton. A year before Thurneysen's publication, Elias Steinmeyer and Eduard Sievers isolated se v e ra l Old E nglish—Old High German g lo sse s to books o f th e Bible found in folios 100-111 of the manuscript.^ In 1910 Otto B. Schlutter noticed that there were Old English items in the large alphabetical glossary as well. He printed sixty such items plus seventeen from the Biblical section with parallels to the Corpus, Epinal, Erfurt, and Leiden Voss.