A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language: From the Semi-Saxon Period of A.D. 1250 to 1300Coleridge, Herbert
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A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language: From the Semi-Saxon Period of A.D. 1250 to 1300
Coleridge, Herbert
English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
_Ritson’s Ancient Songs_, Class I. Most of these songs, however, are
contained in the Specimens of Lyric Poetry, temp. Ed. I., and are quoted
from that collection. (By Mr Harrison.)
_Religious Songs_, printed at the end of the Percy Society’s edition of
the Owl and Nightingale. (By Mr H. Coleridge.)
_Dialogue between the Soul and Body._ In the Appendix to Mapes’s Poems,
edited by Mr Wright, for the Camden Society, p. 334. (By the Rev. J.
Eastwood.)
_The Early English Psalter._ Edited by the Rev. J. Stevenson, for the
Surtees’ Society. Cited by the psalm and verse. (By Mr H. Coleridge.)
_Robert of Gloucester’s Chronicle._ Ed. Hearne (2nd ed., 1810). Cited by
the page. (By Mr. H. Coleridge.)
_The Legend of St Brandan._ Edited by Mr Wright, for the Percy Society.
(By the Rev. J. Eastwood.)
_The Life and Martyrdom of Thomas Beket._ Edited by Mr Black, for the
Percy Society. (By the Rev. J. Eastwood.)
(Owing to the gross inaccuracy of the marginal numbering in the
printed edition of this poem, it has been found necessary to go over
the whole afresh, and to cite according to the amended reckoning. The
following data will assist the reader:--The first error occurs in page
64, where the line numbered 1280 should be 1282. The second occurs in
page 100, where ten lines are dropped, and 1961 is printed for 1973,
the true number. The third will be found in page 110, where 2049 is
made to succeed 2139, and after this, of course, the confusion is
hopeless. The exact number of lines in the poem is 2515, while the
printed numbers give only 2398. Readers are therefore requested to
renumber their copies from page 64 onwards, before attempting to
verify the references in the Glossary.)
The following pieces will be printed in the second part of the
Philological Society’s Transactions for 1858, and are therefore included
in the Glossary. I am indebted to the kindness of my friend and colleague,
Mr Furnivall, for the loan of his transcripts.
_A Moral Ode._ MS. Egerton, 613. Cited by stanzas.
(Hickes printed Extracts from this Ode, in his Thesaurus, vol. I. p.
222, from one of the Digby MSS.; but his text is somewhat different
from that of the Egerton MS., and omits nine stanzas contained in the
latter.)
_A Sermon_ (cited by stanzas), }
_Signa Ante Judicium_, }
_A Fragment on the Seven Sins_, } MS. Harl.
_The Ten Commandments_, } 913.
_Christ on the Cross_, }
_A Poem on Miracles_, containing a Tale of an Oxford Student, }
_The Fall and Passion_, }
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