glossography

Related to glossography: glozed, glossing over

glos·sog·ra·phy

(glô-sŏg′rə-fē, glŏ-)

The compilation of glosses or glossaries.

glos·sog′ra·pher n.

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glossography

(ɡlɒˈsɒɡrəfɪ)

(Journalism & Publishing) the art of writing textual glosses or commentaries

glosˈsographer n

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glossography

the writing or compilation of marginal or interlinear notes in a manuscript text. — glossographer, n.

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The aim is to gather different perspectives (palaeography, glossography, history, linguistics, and philology) to understand better 'the socio-historical context and the cultural and intellectual milieu in which [the gloss] was produced' (p.

The Old English Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels: Language, Author and Context

560-636 CE), an encyclopedia of "human and divine subjects, was one of the chief landmarks in glossography and was for many centuries one of the most important reference books" and "became one of the most studied works during the Dark and Middle Ages" ("Isidore of Seville," The New Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Troy in the Troilus and Criseyde

And the presence of material shared with Epinal (written in the last years of the 7th century) along with a rather archaic-looking Isidore batch gives an idea of the diachronic dimension of Anglo-Saxon glossography. Some Cl spellings are even of a more conservative aspect than their counterparts in Epinal.

Die Glossen der Hs. British Library, Cotton Cleopatra A. III: Phonologie, Morphologie, Wortgeographie. (Reviews)

Derolez, Anglo-Saxon Glossography (Brussels, 1992), 29.

5 'Latin and Old English Aidhelm Glosses: A Direct Link in the "Abingdon Group"', Anglo-Saxon Glossography, 141-9, at 143-4.

7 See Anglo-Saxon Glossography, plate 2(a) and (b).

Die altenglischen Glossen zu Aldhelms De laudibus virginatatis in der Handschrift BL, Royal 6 B VII

Perhaps with the help of ultraviolet lighting more can be recovered of the opening of this glossary; what remains even more pressing is interpretation of its significance to the history of glossography and the development of English.

More glosses in early medieval English manuscripts

1992 "Anglo-Saxon glossography: A brief introduction", in: Rene Derolez (ed.), 11-42.

1992 "Anglo-Saxon glossography. Papers read at the International Conference held in Brussels, 8 and 9 September 1986.

Glossal translation in the Lindisfarne Gospel according to Saint Matthew

Lhuyd, Archaelogia Britannica, giving some Account Additional to what has been hitherto Publish'd, of the Languages, Histories and Customs Of the Original Inhabitants of Great Britain, I (all published) Glossography (Oxford, 1707).