Épinal-Erfurt glossary
The Épinal-Erfurt glossary is a glossary of Old English. It survives in two manuscripts. It has been described as "the earliest body of written English", and is thought to have been compiled at Malmesbury for Aldhelm.
Manuscripts
Two main manuscripts of the Glossary exist today:- , Épinal, France, Bibliothèque municipale, MS72, fols. 94–107, around the turn of the seventh to eighth centuries, England.
- Erfurt, Germany, Wissenschaftliche Bibliothek, MS Amplonianus, MS 2o42, fols. 1–14v, from the first quarter of the ninth century.
Facsimiles
The Épinal Glossary, Latin and Old English, ed. by Henry Sweet, Early English Text Society, o.s. 79b.- Bischoff, Bernhard, Mildred Budny, Geoffrey Harlow, M. B. Parkes and J. D. Pheifer, The Épinal, Erfurt, Werden, and Corpus Glossaries: Épinal Bibliothèque Municipale 72, Erfurt Wissenschaftliche Bibliothek Amplonianus 2o 42, Düsseldorf Universitätsbibliothek Fragm. K 19: Z 9/1, Munich Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Cgm. 187 III, Cambridge Corpus Christi College 144, Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, 22.
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Editions
- , ed. by Henry Sweet, Early English Text Society, o. s. 83, pp. 35–107.
- “The Épinal Glossary, Edited with Critical Commentary of the Vocabulary”, ed. by A. K. Brown, 3 vols.', ed. by J. D. Pheifer,.
- ', ed. by Michael W. Herren, David W. Porter, Hans Sauer.