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46 THE CORPUS, EPINAL, ERFURT AND LEYDEN GLOSSARIES
portion), it offers no fewer than two hundred and thirty.
In this
second part of our investigation we must therefore take as our
guide the Second Erfurt Glossary (Erf^). The Corpus Glossary,
being a compound of A- and AB-material, is less suitable. I
Er£2 (see Goetz' apograph in C. G. L. v, pp. 259-337) declares'^
itself to be a compound of two glossaries, with an addition of some
items culled from Glossae Verborum (i.e. of Verbs) and Glossae
Nominum (i.e. of Nouns), this addition
including some Anglosaxon
interpretations: INCIPIT II
(i.e. duarum^) conscriptio
GLOSSARUM (i.e. glossariorum) in unam, quibus verba quoque
VEL NOMINA ALIA MIXTIM VEL LATINA VEL SAXONIAE INSEruntur
(see Classical Quarterly, xi, 189). Now each section of
the Erfurt MS. normally offers (1 j a collection of Abstrusa items,
which stands in the first half of the section, (2) a heterogeneous
collection of Abolita items, Virgil items, some Bible items, etc.;
while at the very end of the section an Anglosaxon interpretation
shews itself So we may assume, for the present at least, that the
first of the two glossaries mentioned in the title-heading was the
Abstrusa Glossary, and that the compiler began each section with
Abstrusa material ; then proceeded to the second glossary's
material, finishing the section with the slight addition culled
from lists of Verbs and Nouns (some of these with Anglosaxon
interpretations).
These Anglosaxon interpretations may conveniently be put
together here (cf. Sweet 0. E. T. p. 108). All (except Continuus
and Putridum, apparently adjectives) are nouns ;
for '
bernit '
(1102 Sw.) seems to have no stronger claim than (1129 Sw.)
Ringitur : trahit dic(tum) hoc (de) more canum (where Sweet
makes an Ags. verb out of the Latin trahit). The first gloss,
which stands in the middle of the AN-section, is
really
A[n]sportat : abducit, avehit, aufert (bernit MS.) ; c£ Aftatim
482, 41 : Asportat abducit, avehit, aufert, abstrahit. The reduced
form of the second may be what appears in the Abstrusa MS. used
by Goetz in C. G. L. iv 164, 12 Ringitur: irascitur, indignatur;
also in Corp. R 182 Ringitur : irascitur. The full form appears
in EEi (Ep. 22 C 34 = C. G. L. v 387, 33) Ringitur: irascitur ;
1 Sweet omits the numeral symbol. Goetz (in C. G. L. v) printed the symbol
of quinque. But duarum, he tells me, is right.