An Old English dictionary compiled by Dugdale

Title

An Old English dictionary compiled by Dugdale

Shelfmark

MS. Dugdale 29

Summary

An Old English dictionary compiled by Dugdale from the following manuscripts in the possession of Sir Christopher Hatton:

'Libri quatuor homiliarum Sax" [now MSS. Junius 42-44, Hatton 113]

Liber quasdam constitutiones in concilio apud Wintoniam tempore regis Willelmi conquestoris editas, lingua Saxonica, necnon homilias quasdam Saxonicas continens [now MS. Junius 121]

Liber Sax' Dialogorum Gregorii, cum herbale quodam Sax' annexa [now MS. Barocc. 125]

Liber curae pastoralis, a sancto Gregorio papa editus, et in Saxonicum sermonem translatus per regem Alfredum' [now MS. Hatton 20]

And from the printed book Lambarde, De priscis Anglorum legibus (London 1568, 4°)

And from the printed book The Gospells in Saxon and English (London 1571)

And from the printed book Lambarde's Perambulation of Kent (London 1576)

And from the printed book A Testimony of Antiquitie, by William Lisle (London 1623)

And from the printed book Spelman's Concilia, vol. i (London 1639)

And from the printed book Psalterium Davidis Latino-Saxonicum Vetus (London 1640)

And from the printed book Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum venerabilis Bedae

And from the printed book Latino-Saxonica, ed. Wheelocke (London 1643)

Labelled 'U'

Date

Written by Sir William Dugdale in 1644

Language

English

Multiple languages

Old English (ca. 450-1100)

Physical facet

On paper

Physical extent

332 Leaves

Custodial history

The flyleaves are two leaves from a Latin commentary upon the minor prophets, written about 1300, in two columns.