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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
As a contributory step toward a new edition of Du Cange's Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis, planned by the International Association of Academies, the British Academy has undertaken to publish a critical edition of mediaeval glossaries. The most important of these glossaries, because it constitutes the parent-compilation from which subsequent compilers of glossaries drew their material, is that pair known as Abstrusa and Abolita, found combined in the Vatican MS. 3321, which is the oldest extant MS. of purely Latin glossaries. It is with the date and home of this MS. that the present note is concerned.
page 189 note 1 S. Isidori Hispalensia episcopi opera omnia, II. 270; Rome, 1797.
page 189 note 2 class. Auct. VI. 501–551; Rome, 1843. He printed excerpts from this MS. along with excerpts from seven other glossaries preserved in Vatican MSS.
page 189 note 3 Rheinisches Museum, XXIV. (1869) 381 sqqGoogle Scholar.
page 189 note 4 Prodromus corporis glossariorum, p. 143 sq.; Leipsic, 1876.
page 189 note 5 Vncialis scriptura, PI. XLV. b.
page 189 note 6 The last page has the entry: ‘Ant. Panormitae.’ The paper fly-leaf has the entry: ‘Lexicon di voce sacre et profane con alcune operette de Isidoro Ispalense, et altri, scritto dilettere maiuscole, in 40, in carta pergamena tocco dal Panormita Ful. Vrs.’ This entry is not Fulvio Orsini's, as is commonly supposed, but the work of an eighteenth-century library official, whose entries are found in other MSS. of the Orsini collection. P. de Nolhac gives a facsimile of this hand (which he too mistook for Fulvio Orsini's) in his excellent book, La Biblio-thèque de Fulvio Orsini, Specimen VIII. and ‘Note sur la planche’; Paris, 1887.
page 189 note 7 I omit the horizontal stroke above the letters.
page 190 note 1 On f. 188vHS occurs after the supplied line instead of before it. This is very old usage, and is rarely found after the seventh century.
page 190 note 2 Op. cit.
page 190 note 3 Op. cit.
page 190 note 4 Textgeschichte der Regula S.Benedicti (1st edit.), p. 104.
page 190 note 5 Bibliotheca patr. lat. Ital. I. 545.
page 190 note 6 Op. cit.
page 190 note 7 The use of HS after the supplied line on fol. 188v argues for the older date; see note I above.
page 190 note 8 Steffens, Lat. Palaeog.2, Pl.37; Zangemeister-Wattenbach, Exempla Cod. Lat., etc. Suppl., PI. LXI.
page 190 note 9 Palaeographical Society, I., PI. 121.
page 191 note 1 Cf. The Beneventan Script, p. 84 sqq.
page 191 note 2 Cf. Berliner philologische Wochcnschrift, No. 29 (1911), col. 917 sq.
