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2 THE CORPUS, EPINAL, ERFURT AND LEYDEN GLOSSARIES
binder's. All he did was to direct the combination into one large
collection of several '
glossae collectae.' And since a cognate
English glossary, called by Sweet the EE Glossary and preserved
in two MSS,, one now at Epinal and the other at Erfurt, shews
much the same combination, our interest shifts from the Corpus ,
compiler to that earlier compiler (presumably
of the seventh
century) to whom we owe the common source of EE and Corpus.
What the separate 'glossae collectae' were we learn with the
help of a St Gall MS., now in the Leyden University Library.
This Leyden Glossary (printed with notes by Dr Hessels,
Cambridge, 1906) retains them (or rather meagre selections
from them) in their separate form, assigning one section to each
batch and stating at the head of each section the text to which
the batch of 'glossae collectae' belongs: DE EUSEBio, DE OROSIO,
etc. I will take up these sections of Leid., one after another
(choosing my own order), and use them to throw light on Corpus
and EE, my aim being to get at the common source of Corpus
and EE, that English seventh century collection which provides
the nucleus of more than one glossary of the English group.
The EE Glossary claims more attention than Corpus, for that
part of it which is is
peculiarly English not so far removed from
the stage represented by Leid. as is Corpus. It is arranged by
A- (the initial letter only being taken into account), while
Corpus is arranged by AB- throughout (the
being regarded). The more precise arrangement
first two letters
involves more
re-shuffling.
Sections 45 and 46 of the Leyden Glossary are explanations
of words in Phocas' short Grammar (vol. v, pp. 410-439 of
Keil's Grammatici Latini), especially
of his lists of Nouns on
pp. 411-430 which begin with monosyllables, e.g. iiions, mos,
mus, mas, Mars, mors, merx, mens, mel (to cite only those whose
initial is M) and go through
the rest not in the order of the
Five Declensions but according to the termination : Nouns
ending in -a, in -e, in -o, in -u, in -al, in -urn, in -en, in -ar, in
-er, and so on; finally Greek Nouns, Nouns used only in the
Plural, etc. The Leyden Glossary keeps fairly
to the order of
the words' occurrence in Phocas' pages but by no means in-
variably. Section 45 begins with the monosyllables lar, fors,