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88 THE CORPUS, EPINAL,, ERFURT AND LEYDEN GLOSSARIES
since this compiler (like others) was in the habit of re-casting
the items he selected. An Abstrusa (or Abolita) word which has
in Affatim the precise Abstrusa (or Abolita) interpretation, but
in Erf.^ a slightly different interpretation, is far more likely to
be an Abstrusa (or Abolita) item in Erf.^ than an item culled
from some new source.
necessitatem.'
'Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter
A favourite form of re-casting in the Corpus Glossary (or
Corpus College MS.) is the addition of an Anglosaxon interpretation.
The Abstrusa item (C. G. L. iv 18, 48) Apricitas: calor
('Sunniness: warmth') had, in that Abstrusa MS. which was the
common source of the English group, become corrupted to Apricitas
: color. The compiler of the Corpus Glossary (or the scribe
of the Corpus College MS.), knowing the meaning of color but
not of apricitas, has re-cast this item into the form Apricitas:
color, hio. Since the compiler (or transcriber) liked to eke out
the collection by splitting an item into two, there was a chance ;
of a pair, Apricitas :
color and (possibly removed to another page)
Apricitas: hio. There was also a chance that the Anglosaxon;
gloss might oust the Latin; in which case only the second form ;
(Apricitas: hio)
would survive. This is what seems to have
happened in Corpus C 471 Clinici: faertyhted (a translation of
Lat. illectus), compared with Erf ^
(277, 38)
Clinice: lectus vol
textus (perhaps written Clinice .i. lectus). Also Corp. F 128?
Bearing this in mind, we may make a list of the bilingual
items in Corpus which can, with more or less probability, be
identified with all-Latin items of Erf^ or EE. In spite of the
AB-rearrangement of Corpus we can usually
discriminate the
portions of each section which correspond to the 'first portions'
so it will be well to add an
and to the 'second portions' of EE ;
indication of this by means of the symbols "i" and "ii."
ii A 45 Abiget (i.e. -it?) : wereth (cf. Aff. 478, 35 Abigit : minat, expellit
= Abstr. 4, 4 Abicit: rainat vel expellit); ii A 108 Acervus: muha (cf.
Erf.2 260, 27 Acervus : cumulus
vel tumulus vel coadunatio frumenti vel
terrae, id est multum, turba = Abstr. 6, 3 Acervum : tumulum; cf. 6, 25
Acervum : tumulum cujuslibet rei. Cf. ii Corp. A 147 Acervus ; cumulus
: lapidum);
Acisculum : quod
lapides) ;
ii A 115 Acisculum
habent structores ; quasi
piic (cf. Erf^ 260, 43 and Corp. A 168
malleolus est ad caedendos
ii A 165 Acedia: taedium vel anxietas, id est sorg (cf. EE i =