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PART I 13 I iie Sebo : tmslit smeoro of Corp. S 33 may be an Aldhelm gloss.) Bit that is a point of minor importance. Whether the Orosius iiiaterial used for EE and Corpus was heterogeneous or not, the I-;aine material was used by both compilers. Both take from a mis- anderstood annotation of Oros. ii, 5, 1 (duos filios suos adules- 3entes totidemque uxoris suae fratres, Yitellios iuvenes ' ^oung Vitellii ') the absurd item Vitelli : suehoras, the i.e. Germ. Schwager (Ep. 28 A 24 = C. G. L. v 399, 3 = Corp. Y 177). Both ihew a fusion of the marginalia on Oros. iv pref 7 (siquis e nollissimis stratis cubiculoquepercommodomatutinus egrediens) ^ercommoda matutinos : suacendlic morgenlic (Ep. 17 E 37 = 2. G. L. V 378, 5 = Corp. P 203), and so on. One mistake shared )y the compilers had a curious history and reveals the happy-goucky way in which annotations in a MS. were pressed into jlossary^-service. Orosius speaks of Thermopylae as a strong josition held and fortified by Antiochus (iv, 20, 20 Antiochus, juamvis Thermopylas occupasset quarum munimine tutior proper dubios belli eventus fieret, tamen...superatus vix cum paucis iigit). The annotator explained that Thermopylae was one of the strong positions in that region. The monk who was ordered to ixcerpt the annotations for glossary- purposes (or as 'glossae »llectae ') probably did not understand that Thermopylae was a jlace. Hence the strange item Thermopylae : faestin in a long Qrosius batch in the T-section of EE (Ep. 27 C 9 = C. G. L. v J97, 22) and in the Corpus Glossary (T 91). Such an item was \ godsend to the hunters after weird words. Thermopylae (in (rarious spellings) was included in the Hesperic freak-vocabulary md is used e.g. of a crag by the sea ( Jenkinson Hisperica Famina, f). 14, 1. 408): fluctivagaque scrupeas vacillant aequora in ter- nopilas ' the strongholds.' seas with roving billows sway against the rocky The Hesperic writer seems not to have known the Fuller version of the annotation : ar pass,' that appears in EE. ' faestin vel anstiga a stronghold The unsuitability of marginalia for the role of glossar}"-items is best illustrated by the absurd use of an annotated text of Jerome De Viris Illustribus. The annotations were mostly on the Greek titles of theological books mentioned by Jerome. And dnce we often find in medieval MSS. more than one marginal
14 THE CORPUS, EPINAL, ERFURT AND LEYDEN GLOSSARIES attempt to transcribe in Latin the unfamiliar letters of a Greek word, we must not infer a separate MS. for each freakish meta morphosis. But, as was said of the Orosius glosses, the question how far the material was heterogeneous is of little account, since it is clear that the same material was used by all compilers, hj the compiler of Leid. (in this case) as well as by the compilers o: EE and Corpus. Section 30 of the Leyden Glossary, assigned t' this collection, has nearly one hundred items, all of them Greel words and nearly all appearing in EE and Corpus. As specimen of a Jerome batch in EE take the opening of the P-section (Ep. 17 E 15-26 = C. G. L. v 36-47) Peri philoptochias (Jer. 111. ch. 117), Ptochias (ibid.), Prosomilian (ch. 61), Pseudoepigrapha (ch. 32), Peri tes zoes theoretices (ch. 11), Periodus (ch. 7), Hypotheseon (ch. 86), Peri tes cratorias tu theu (ch. 13), Pro- sephonesen (ch. 38), Prosomilian (ch. 61), Periodus (ch. 7), Peri autocratoros empirias (ch. 13). What folly to transfer such things from their proper place in a Jerome MS. to the pages of a dic- The excerptor's troubles are revealed by such ludicrous tionary ! errors as that in the first item of another Jerome batch in the same section of EE (Ep. 18 C 25 - C. G. L. v 379, 14 = Corp. P 837) Pseudepigrapha : incerta et de octava egregium. The lemma-word comes from Jer. 111. 32 (sed ab eruditis quasi '\lrev8e'iTijpa(j)a repudiantur), but the last four words of the interpretation marginal supplement to supply their omission in ch. 35 (scripsit. are a et De Octava egregium avvray/jua). The Bible (i.e. Vulgate) glosses of EE and Corpus have a far wider range than those of the Leyden MS. In it there are none from Genesis to Second Kings (4 Reg.) nor from the Acts to the Revelation; for the jewel-name glosses from Rev. xxi 9-10, common to Leid., EE and Corpus, do not belong to the Bible group. And its Bible items, extending from § 7 to § 25 (roughly speaking, one section for each book), are not nearly so closely connected with those of EE and Corpus . . as the Jerome glosses just mentioned. Still the connexion is patent, especially in the second half of the Leyden collection. The item Alabastrum (from Matth. xxvi 7) reads thus in Leid. (§ 24, 13) Alabastrum: proprium nomen lapidis et vas sic nominatur de illo lapide factum. In Corpus (A 442) we have precisely the same inter-
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