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January 2027

The Antwerp–London Glossaries

The Latin and Latin–Old English Vocabularies from Antwerp, Museum Plantin-Moretus 16.2 – London, British Library Add. 32246.

Volume 2: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

Publications of the Dictionary of Old English 9. xiv, 610 pp. Cloth. ISBN 978-0-88844-909-2 • $155.00

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The Antwerp–London Glossaries are eleventh-century descendents of the earliest school text in the English language. In their earliest form they played a central role at the seventh-century school of Canterbury; they contributed material to the fundamental texts, dated to the 600s, known as the Leiden Glossary and the Épinal-Erfurt glossary. 

March 2023

The Bodley Glossaries: The Glossaries in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 730

Publications of the Dictionary of Old English 11 • xii, 140 pp. • ISBN 978-0-88844-911-5 • Cloth • $90.00

Between the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth centuries, scribes at the Cistercian abbey of Buildwas in the West Midlands copied four glossaries at the end of a manuscript containing the De institutis coenobiorum and Conlationes by John Cassian. These glossaries, preserved in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 730, offer precious evidence of the continuity of the Old English glossarial tradition well into the Middle English period. At the same time, in their Latin (and sometimes Greek) entries followed by Latin, Anglo-Norman, and English glosses, they bear witness to the multilingual environment of their time and place.

February 2023

Philology in Turbulent Times: Joseph Bosworth, His Dictionary, and the Recovery of Old English

Publications of the Dictionary of Old English 10 • xxx, 314 pp. • ISBN 978-0-88844-910-8 • Cloth • $95.00

From its inception in 1838, Joseph Bosworth’s A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language was widely viewed as flawed. The denigration proved widespread by the time T. Northcote Toller revised it in 1898. Critics, however, knew very little about the creation of the Dictionary or the struggles of its creators. This book is a project of recovery: it situates the Dictionary culturally and historically, reconstructing that history from a wealth of archival materials – surviving manuscripts, correspondence, annotated books, and other documents.

April 2011

The Antwerp–London Glossaries

The Latin and Latin–Old English Vocabularies from Antwerp, Museum Plantin-Moretus 16.2 – London, British Library Add. 32246.

Volume 1: Texts and Indexes

Publications of the Dictionary of Old English 8. 2011. xii, 258 pp. Cloth. ISBN 978–0–88844–908–5 • $85.00

January 2007

Making Sense: Constructing Meaning in Early English

Publications of the Dictionary of Old English 7. 2007. xii, 138 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–907–8 • $24.95

January 2004

The Correspondence of Edward Lye

Publications of the Dictionary of Old English 6. 2004. xx, 412 pp. Casebound. ISBN 978–0–88844–906–1 • $94.95

January 1996

England’s Earliest Sculptors

Publications of the Dictionary of Old English 5. 1996. xx, 187 pp.; figures and plates. Casebound. ISBN 978–0–88844–905–4 • $59.50

January 1992

“A Chorus of Grammars”: The Correspondence of George Hickes and His Collaborators on the Thesaurus linguarum septentrionalium

Publications of the Dictionary of Old English 4. 1992. xviii, 492 pp.; figures and plates. Casebound. ISBN 978–0–88844–904–7 • $69.00

January 1987

A Collection of Papers with Emphasis on Old English Literature

Publications of the Dictionary of Old English 3. 1987. xviii, 461 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–903–0 • $74.95