The shaky handwriting of the thirteenth-century scribe known as
`the tremulous hand of Worcester' appears in at least twenty
manuscripts dating from the late ninth to the twelfth century,
glossing perhaps 50,000 Old English words, sometimes into Middle
English, but much more often into Latin. This book examines the
full range of the scribe's work and addresses some important
questions, such as which of the Worcester glosses may be attributed
to him, why he glossed the words he did, what the purpose of the
glossing may have been, and how well he knew or came to know Old
English. Christine Franzen argues that the scribe went through a
methodical learning process, one step of which was the preparation
of a first-letter alphabetical English-Latin word list, the
earliest known in the English language. This first full-scale study
of the Worcester glosses is important for the wealth of information
it provides about the work methods of the tremulous scribe, the
English language at a transitional point in its history, and about
the ability to read Old English in the thirteenth century.
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