Sometimes, in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, we come across grammatical treatises and lists of Latin words, to act as learning aids for those new to the vocabulary and grammar of the main language of the church. Unfortunately for us, nobody at the time created word lists in Old English: there was no real need, and dictionaries as…
Month: January 2017
Beati illuminatores: meeting a manuscript
Recently, I have been doing research on the prayers added to late Anglo-Saxon psalters, for which I paid a short visit to the Bodleian Library in Oxford a couple of months ago. While I was there, I thought I might as well take the chance to look at a manuscript which I have mentioned in…
Honey and peace will abound: Anglo-Saxon predictions for 2017
Happy New Year! If you’re wondering what is to come in 2017, early medieval monks had the answers. A number of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts include prognostics of various kinds – texts for predicting the future. One such manuscript is London, British Library Cotton MS Tiberius A. iii. As mentioned in some earlier posts, I’ve worked with…
For the Wynn 