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Excerpt from A Library of National Antiquities, Vol. 2: Illustrating the General Archaeology and History of Our Country, the Condition and Manners of Our Forefathers, as Well as a History of the Forms of Elementary Education, and of the Languages Spoken in This Island, From the Tenth Century to the Fifteenth
IN the present volume I give, from the original manuscripts, the principal vocabularies extant, anglo-saxon and early-english, not included in the first volume, so that they give a certain degree Of completeness to my collection. At the time when the first volume was published, the vocabularies which form the present volume had partly escaped the attention of its editor, but further researches on the same subject have brought them to his knowledge. The remarks made in the Preface and Introduction to the former volume will apply to these vocabularies also.
The first document in the present volume is a collection of Latin and anglo-saxon glosses from a manuscript of the eleventh century, preserved in the Cottonian Library, Cleopatra A III. They are here arranged in alphabetical order, but there can be little doubt that they have been originally interlinear glosses in some Latin text, for the use of some teacher in the mediaeval schools who required their assistance in explaining the Old Latin words to his mediaeval scholars of the Saxon race. Some scholastic, who required these glosses for his own general use, had copied them from their place in connection with the Latin texts, and had placed them in alphabetical order.
This is followed by a few glosses, not in alphabetical order, from the same Cottonian Manuscript, and therefore of the same date, the eleventh century. This vocabulary also contains a series of very curious words and phrases.
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