Expositio Notarum
Part of Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries
- Date Published: September 2022
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781316514795
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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.
Read more- Unique, previously unpublished text, unlike anything else surviving from antiquity
- Juxtaposes keywords from the zenith of the pagan Roman empire with explanations from the time of St Augustine
- Includes a full introduction, appendices and indices, making the volume accessible to scholars of both classical and later Latinity
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'[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
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- Date Published: September 2022
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781316514795
- length: 642 pages
- dimensions: 223 x 145 x 40 mm
- weight: 0.9kg
- contains: 10 b/w illus. 10 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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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