Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers

Contents: Introduction; Section 1 Looking Back to Old English: The Old English gloss of the Eadwine Psalter, Phillip Pulsiano; The Hatton MS of the West Saxon Gospels: the preservation and transmission of Old English, Andreas Fischer; Building a glossary: extract from 'Use of Sources and External Aids', Christine Franzen; An early 'hard word' list: Stephen Batman's 'A Note of Saxon Wordes', John R. McNair; Stephen Batman and the Expositio vocabulorum, Carl T. Berkhout; Expositio Vocabulorum: a medieval English glossary as archival aid, Don C. Skemer. Section 2 Latin Lexicographers, their Methods and Works, 11th-13th Centuries: Lexicography in the Middle Ages, Olga Weijers; From A?lfric to John of Cornwall: evidence for vernacular grammar teaching in pre- and post-Conquest England, Lucia Kornexl; The Oratio de utensilibus ad domum regendam pertinentibus by Adam of Balsham, Patrizia Lendinara. Section 3 Other Latin Texts and Glossaries with Anglo-Norman and English Glosses, Mainly 12th and 13th Centuries: A polyglot glossary of the 12th century, David Howlett; English plant names in the 13th century: the trilingual Harley vocabulary, Hans Sauer. Section 4 Anglo-Norman and the Trilingual Society, from the 13th Century: Anglo-Norman: past and future, Tony Hunt; Anglo-French and Middle English vocabulary in Femina Nova, W. Rothwell; The trilingual England of Geoffrey Chaucer, W. Rothwell; Business training in medieval Oxford, H.G. Richardson; A French vocabulary and conversation-guide in a 15th-century legal notebook, J.H. Baker. Section 5 Latin and English, 14th and 15th Centuries: Book production terms in Nicholas Munshull's Nominale, Jeremy Griffiths; The teaching of Latin in later medieval England, Brother Bonaventure; The recovery of a 15th-century schoolmaster's book: Beinecke MS 3 No. 34, Linda Ehrsam Voigts and Barbara A. Shailor; Late 15th-century 'terms of association' in MS Pepys 1047, T.L. Burton; Cambridge University Library L1 1 14, f.46 r-v: a late medieval natural scientist at work, D. Thomas Benediktson; The Preface to a Fifteenth-Century Concordance, Sherman M. Kuhn. Section 6 The 15th-Century Alphabetical Dictionaries: Humfrey Wanley borrows books in Cambridge, Helmet Gneuss; The Catholicon Anglicum (1483): a reconsideration, Gabriele Stein; Linguistic problems with the tradition of the 15th-century glossary Medulla grammatice, Vincent P. McCarren; Conclusion; Index.