Anonymous, Verba Anglica Obscura et Glosata (ca 1558 - ca 1603)
Date
1558ca
1603ca
Author
Lexicon title
Verba Anglica obscura et glosata excerpta de legibus Regum Angliæ vizt. Knuti, Aluerdi, Ine Ethelstani, Aluredi et Godrini Edwardi, Edmundi, et Ethelredi
Transcription source
British Library Lansdowne MS 171, no.178. An Old English/Latin glossary of legal terms transcribed for Sir Julius Caesar.
Text type
manuscript
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
- Latin
- law
- Old English
Summary
Copies of various Exchequer papers, according to the index in the hands of Sir Julius Caesar, the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin
Incipit
Aebere morder .i. apertum murdrum
Extent
fols. 391r-92r
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 18
number: 18
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 168
sample: Fightwite .i. forisfactura pugnæ.
number: 168
sample: Fightwite .i. forisfactura pugnæ.
Other editions
"Verba Anglica obscura & glosata exceptu de legibus Regum Angliae,' British Library Sloane MS 1301, no. 78, fols. 239r-41v (fragment, "Munbreche" on). Also, see LEME 1386, a legal glossary copied or collected by Laurence Nowell 1565-67.
