Expositio notarum
This is the first edition of a Latin text unlike any other surviving one : at first sight an extensive, jumbled list of words with explanations, on closer inspection a window on the teaching of Latin shorthand in North Africa c. AD 400, when we find notarii, those trained in shorthand, prominently employed everywhere in state and church. The text reveals in detail how that training could relate to literary Latin and the classical Roman past. The single manuscript of it in our possession descend…
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- Full title :Expositio notarum / edited with introduction and notes by A. C. Dionisotti.
Summary
This is the first edition of a Latin text unlike any other surviving one : at first sight an extensive, jumbled list of words with explanations, on closer inspection a window on the teaching of Latin shorthand in North Africa c. AD 400, when we find notarii, those trained in shorthand, prominently employed everywhere in state and church. The text reveals in detail how that training could relate to literary Latin and the classical Roman past. The single manuscript of it in our possession descends from a copy that must have been in Anglo-Saxon England by AD 700, and we can see how it was used for the earliest Latin glossary from that context. The edition seeks to make this story accessible both in general and in detail, with copious indices for those who may wish to consult it from various viewpoints: classical and later Latin, linguistic and historical.
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- Publication Date:©2022
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2022
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781009090889, 1009090887
- oclc:on1343759033
- LC Classification:PA2365.E5
- Dewey Decimal:473
Table of Contents
Cover -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Preface -- Bibliographical Details and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. EXCAVATING GLOSSES -- 1. A Curious New Text -- 2. First Impressions -- 3. Notae -- 4. CNT -- 5. Expositio and CNT: Questions of Precedence -- 6. The Teaching of Shorthand -- 7. Identikit of the Lemmata -- 8. Minicius the Hedgehog -- II. EXPOSITIO -- 1. Time and Place -- 2. Religion -- 3. Types of Comment -- (a) Linguistic Comment -- (b) History and Public Life, Civic and Religious -- (c) Literature
(D) Entertainment -- (e) Natural World -- 4. The Expositor's Own Language -- 5. Conclusion -- III. THE TEXT OF THE EXPOSITIO NOTARUM -- 1. O = Oxford, Bodleian Library, Add. C.144, ff. 114v-132r -- 2. LZ Abutere-Zypheri -- 3. VZ Adonai-Zarda -- 4. PZ Paris, B.N. lat. 7690, ff. 125r-136v -- 5. A E C: Anglo-Saxons -- (a) E: CGL v 337-401 -- (b) A: CGL v 259-337 -- (c) C: ed. Hessels 1890 -- 6. A E C and the Expositio -- 7. An Intermediate Source? -- 8. HR: London BL Harley 3376 -- 9. ABV/ ABVm Abavus / Abavus Maior -- 10. ABS Abstrusa (CGL iv 1-198) -- 11. AFF Affatim (CGL iv 471-581) -- 12. AFF+
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