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Épinal Erfurt glossary

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The Épinal-Erfurt glossary is a glossary of terms. It consists of two manuscripts (Épinal and Erfurt), and contains terms in Old English.

It has been described as "The earliest body of written English", and is thought to have been compiled at Malmesbury for Aldhelm (c. 639-709).

Two manuscripts of the Glossary exist today: one in the Bibliothèque Municipale of Épinal, France, which was written in Southumbria in the last quarter of the 7th century and one in the Wissenschaftliche Allgemeinbibliothek of Erfurt, Germany, written at Cologne Cathedral in the first half of the 9th century.

Henry Sweet published an edition of the Glossary in 1885 in The Oldest English Texts (Early English Text Society), reprinted in 1938, 1957 and 1966. J. D. Pheifer published Old English Glosses in the Epinal-Erfurt Glossary (Clarendon Press, ISBN 0198111649) in 1974.

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Épinal-Erfurt glossary Wikipedia