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or Gildas? Napier's examples (O. E. G. p. xii) in proof that
Aldhelm glosses are to be found in Corp. include
C351 Caespites: tyrb.
He probably had in his mind Aldh. 5,6 (florentes saltuum cespites)
and never reflected that a word like this might occur in half-a-
dozen of the authors used by the compiler of Corp. For instance,
Gildas has just as much claim as Aldhelm, since we find in Excid.
Brit. 6: Romam ob inopiam, ut aiebant, cespitis repedantibus. It
is a misuse of language to call this sort of thing a 'proof The
only real proof is provided by the presence of batches (batches of
Phocas glosses, batches of Orosius glosses, etc.). And batches of
Aldhelm glosses are hard to find.
This investigation may end with what comes near to guesswork,
a discussion of the (more or less) probable sources of other
Anglosaxon glosses:
Amites :
A
loerge (Ep. 1 A 3 ; C. G. L. v 337, 3 ; Corp. A 502). It is pos-
sible that EE begins with an Abstr.-Abol. batch and that the three opening
items come from Abstnxsa, a glossary compiled from Virgil scholia and
marginalia on an Itala (or, to use the more correct term, Old Latin) text
of the Bible : Apodixin : phantasia (Abstr. 19, 4 Ap. : ostensio. Cf. Corp.
A 660 Ap. : phantasia vel ostensio) ; Aminaeae : sine rubore ('Abstr.', from
a Virgil scholium on Geo. 2, 97); Amites: loerge ('Abstr.', a Bible item
from Itala Exod. 30, 4 et erunt arcus amitibus = \//-aXtSes' rais a-Kin-aXais).
Axmigia :
rysil (Ep. 1 A 5 ; C. G. L. v 337, 5 ; Corp. A 961). Since a
feature of the Latin pre-Hieronymic Bible was its use of Greek loan-words,
it is possible that this may be a Bible item of Abstrusa (e.g. from Job 1.5, 27
where Jerome's Vulgate has de lateribus ejus arviua dependet) and that
the preceding gloss Archon[tus] : princeps (cf Corp. A 745-746 Archontes :
principes, Archontus : princeps) may be another (from Ital. Psal. 2, 2 astiterunt
reges terrae et archontes congregati sunt).
Argilla : thohae (Ep. 1 A 7 ; C. G. L. v 337, 7 ; Corp. A 748). Still the
Abstr.-Abol. batch?
Arula : fyrpannae vel berth (Ep. 1 A 21 ; C. G. L. v 338, 4 ; Corp. A 751).
Since one straggler from a batch often takes another with it, this is most
probably a Herm. item (like the preceding Andena : brandrad), though it
might be a split from Corp. A 768 Arula : vas aptimi ad focum (presumably
a Bible gloss, like the next item in Corpus, and from Jerem. 36, 22 ignis
qui erat in arula).
Aconita: thungas, Apio: merici, Alcyon (Hal-): isaeru, Acalanthis vel
luscinia vel roscin(i)a: nectigalae, Asilo: briosa (Ep. 1 E 3-7: C. G. L. v