... theologian Revelation Book of apocalypse James VI and I Laud William Archbishop of Canterbury parishes and parishioners Scotland Ireland New World Psalters Bible translation Geneva Bible Beza paratexts reading practices European Calvinism biblical glosses In the sixteenth century...

... glosses monastic reading Cicero Marcus Tullius Martianus Capella encyclopedic glosses intellectual property author etymology of authorship Isidore of Seville Bede Alcuin of York Carolingian Renaissance intellectual property glosses The early Middle Ages, spanning the fifth to tenth centuries...

... lexicon in Thessaly. The chapter highlights the richness and variety of Thessaly's contribution in providing information about the Greek lexicon and suggests that some lexical items transmitted only by Glosses which turned out to be real in the light of the latent vocabulary from which Thessalian names...

.... The Gloss provided a comprehensive digest of available biblical exegesis collected from the Church Fathers and other authorities in a convenient format. Issuing from the teaching of Anselm of Laon and his school, the books of the Gloss were often compiled from previous commentaries, continuously written...

..., the interpretative aspect of mythography can also be found in the archaic poets, who often employ etymological explanations of words or names and other types of glosses, and even full-blown allegory. All these categories overlap, as the examples provided attest. Whether early poets were or not aware...

... mainly of interlinear and marginal glosses to Old English texts which are usually, but not exclusively, religious in nature. Some of the glosses are Middle English, but the vast majority are Latin. The amount of glossing varies a great deal from manuscript to manuscript and text to text: in some texts...

...One important aspect of the tremulous scribe's work is the layer of Middle English glosses in MSS C, E, and G. This layer is not only in his hand but is his earliest layer of glossing. It is therefore of considerable importance to attempt to describe what was happening in this early stage of his...

... Dante Boccaccio marginalia glosses ‘Towchyng thi lettre, thou art wys ynough. I woot thow nylt it dygneliche endite, As make it with thise argumentes tough; Ne scryvenyssh or craftyly thow it write; Biblotte it with thi teris ek a lite; And if thow write a goodly word al softe, Though...

...This chapter examines some of the glosses in two of the earliest manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales, the so-called Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts. It takes a fresh look at how text and margin work, especially in the Prologue to the Wife of Bath's Tale...

...This chapter discusses a list of textbooks prescribed by Alexander Neckam (also known as Nequam) based on Sacerdos ad altare, a grammatical work written by him around 1210. Sacerdos ad altare is accompanied by extensive glosses on grammar, lexicography, etymology...

... of Hippo, but probably a pagan. His work is in nine books, the last seven of which form a treatise on each of the seven liberal arts (the trivium of grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric; the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music). Martianus Capella Cologne glosses Marriage of Mercury...

... of named masters, as building blocks to frame and authenticate his arguments. Other topics addressed are the doxographical assumptions underlying gNubs-chen’s classificatory scheme and the nature of the glosses that intersperse the entire text, and what they might tell us regarding its early transmission...

... and readiness to create the text through interpretation. Milhamot Glosses Commentary halakhic This content is only available as a PDF. ...

...0 21 04 1994 The main topic of this paper is that of the appearance of glosses, interpolations, and other scribal additions in the textual traditions of the Old Testament. Upon investigating this topic one realizes time and again how complex the issues are, not only with regard to a definition...

... glosses made with a stylus or the wooden end of a brush: these dry-point glosses are invisible at first sight but the indentations in the paper serve as guidance to the interpretation of the text. By the sixth century some form of ‘vernacular reading’ was being practised in the Silk Road town of Gaochang...

...The first priority in a study of the tremulous scribe must be to determine which of the glosses in the manuscripts are his work. This chapter describes the characteristics of the different layers of Worcester glosses. It defines a small number of categories which distinguish the most important...

...At least twenty manuscripts contain evidence of the tremulous scribe's hand. Some of the manuscripts have been glossed by the tremulous hand, but in varying degrees and manners. All of the glossed manuscripts also contain marks updating vowels and consonants and adding word division and punctuation...

.... It also considers the scribe's worksheets and cribbed glosses, along with other external sources from which the tremulous scribe culled English-Latin word pairs. In most of the manuscripts, he has occasionally repeated or slightly respelt Old English words in the margin, sometimes accompanied with a Latin...

...One of the questions which is often asked about the work of the tremulous scribe is why he glossed the particular words which he did. He did not attempt to give a word for word interlinear gloss, but instead selected specific words within each text. The words which he glossed were certainly not all...

... and the additions that were made, while another identifies the central themes in the recurrent editorial glosses to the Speyer-Worms-Mainz story. Mainz Anonymous Solomon bar Simson Chronicle Speyer Worms Mainz unit of Ephraim ben Jacob of Bonn medieval narratives editorial latitude in Orléans letter circulation...