Rethinking and recontextualizing glosses:
new perspectives in the study
of late Anglo-Saxon glossography
(PRIN 2007 PALERMO, Roma LUMSA, UDINE)
International Conference
February 11th-13th 2010
Rome, LUMSA
Thursday February 11
9.00 Opening addresses
9.30 Antonette de Paolo Healey (University of Toronto)
Late Anglo-Saxon Glossography: The Lexicographic View
10.05 Mariken Teeuwen (C. Huygens Instit., Koninklijke Bibl., Den Haag,
Utrecht)
Glossed Manuscripts from the Early Middle Ages: Some Observations on their
Function and Context
10.30 Rebecca Rushforth
Annotated Psalters and Manuscript Evidence for Study of the Psalms in Late
Anglo-Saxon England
Discussion
Break
11.20 Malcolm Godden (University of Oxford)
Glosses to the Consolation of Philosophy in Late Anglo-Saxon England:
their Origins and their uses.
11.55 Rohini Jayatilaka (University of Oxford)
Geographical Glosses on Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy
12.20 Concetta Giliberto (Università di Palermo)
Precious Stones’ Names in the Anglo-Saxon Glossary Tradition
Discussion
Afternoon
14.30 David Porter (University of Batoun-Rouge)
Ælfric’s Glossary and the Winchester Curriculum.
15.05 Loredana Lazzari (Università di Roma, LUMSA)
Learning Tools and Learned Lexicographers: the Antwerp-London and the
Junius 71 Latin-Old English Glossaries
15.30 Paolo Vaciago (Università di Roma III)
Updating the Lemma: The Case of the St. Gallen Biblical Glossaries
Discussion
Break
16.00 Maria Amalia D’Aronco (Università di Udine)
Anglo-Saxon Medical and Botanical Glossaries after the Norman Conquest:
Continuations and Beginnings
16.25 Carmela Rizzo (Università di Palermo)
Macer Floridus’ De viribus herbarum and the Old English Glosses in ms.
Cotton Vitellius C.iii, f. 10v
Friday 12 February
9.00 Joyce Hill (University of Leeds)
The Regularis Concordia Glossed and Translated
9.35 Maria Caterina De Bonis (Università di Potenza)
The Interlinear Glosses to the Regula Sancti Benedicti in ms. London,
British Library, Cotton Tiberius A.iii: A Specimen of a Forthcoming
Edition.
10.00 Claudia Di Sciacca (Università di Udine)
Glossing in Late Anglo-Saxon England: A Sample Study of the Latin Glosses
in mss. Harley 110 and CCCC 448
Discussion
Break
11.00 Fabrizio D. Raschellà (Università di Siena-Arezzo)
The Latin-Icelandic Glossary in AM 249 l fol and its Counterpart in GKS
1812 4to
11.25 Alessandro Zironi (Università di Bologna)
Marginal Alphabets in the Carolingian Age: Philological and Codicological
Considerations
11.50 Maria Rita Digilio (Università di Siena)
The Fortune of Old English Glosses in Early Medieval Germany
Discussion
Afternoon
15.00 Philip Rusche (University of Nevada)
The Durham Plant Name Glossary and the Old English Herbarium
15.35 Loredana Teresi (Università di Palermo)
The Name of the Winds in Anglo-Saxon Glosses and Glossaries
16.00 Giuseppe Donato De Bonis (Università di Cosenza)
Glossing the Adjectives in the Interlinear Gloss to the Regularis
Concordia in ms London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A.iii
Discussion
Break
17.00 Patrizia Lendinara (Università di Palermo)
Glossing Abbo in Latin and in the Vernacular
Conclusions
Glossing was a scribal practice in use since antiquity, but it was in the
Middle Ages that it acquired a wider meaning and a different role,
becoming one of the most widespread forms of literacy in the Germanic
West, including the British Isles.
This project focuses on a well-identified time-span, i.e. the late
Anglo-Saxon period, and on glossarial material which can be traced back to
leading cultural centres such as Abingdon, Canterbury, Glastonbury, and
Winchester.
The research programme, funded by the Ministry of University and the three
universities of Palermo, Rome LUMSA, and Udine, and directed by Patrizia
Lendinara, aims to recontextualize glosses in order to ascertain the
different steps of the interpretation process from which the glossators’
work stemmed.
Glosses and glossaries will thus be studied from a much wider point of
view, addressing the issue of why a text was glossed at a given? time and
in a given scriptorium. The relationship between the glosses and the Latin
text they accompany (as well as that between lemma and interpretamentum
within a glossary) will be analysed with the intent of tracing the glosses
back to their original context, moving from the data offered by the late
Anglo-Saxon and early Anglo-Norman manuscripts.
