Expositio Notarum by Dionisotti, A. C.;

Series: Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries; 64;

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Publisher Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication 8 September 2022

ISBN 9781316514795
Binding Hardback
No. of pages642 pages
Size 223x145x40 mm
Weight 900 g
Language English
Illustrations 10 b/w illus. 10 tables

Short description:

Edition of a unique, unpublished Latin text illuminating education in the time of Augustine and the formation of Latin glossaries.

Long description:

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.

'[Dionisotti's] superb exploration of EN reveals the history of a text and a mode of thinking about language that provide significant contexts for our reading of more familiar and more appealing works; so too, her scholarship has a depth, honesty, and generosity that deserve our attention and respect.' James E. G. Zetzel, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Text of the Expositio Notarum with notes; Appendix I. Possible additional items; Appendix II. Linguistic overview; Appendix III. Concordance with Anglo-Saxon glossaries; Appendix IV. Concordance with Notae Tironianae; Appendix V. Placidus; Appendix VI. Festus General index (includes Special indices 1-4); Special indices: 1. Proper names; 2. Words condemned as not Latin; 3. Words only otherwise in CNT or glossaries, if at all; 4. Greek in the Expositio; 5. Antiquities.

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