Reichenau glosses

The Reichenau glosses are glosses or glossaries that were created in northwestern France (possibly Corbie Benedictine Abbey ) at the end of the 8th century , which list translations from classical Latin into the vulgar Latin or Old French used at the time and thus provide important links in language development :

forum → mercatum 'market' (French: marché )

isset → ambulasset 'he went' (cf.Ital. '' he went in the passageway ', Romanian. blow around' he was strolling ')

liberos → infantes 'children' (French enfants )

pulchra → bella 'beautiful' (French beau m., belle f.)

id → hoc, 'this' (French ou i)

They are handed down in the glossy manuscript Cod. Augiensis CCXLVIII of the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe .

literature

• Klein, Hans-Wilhelm (Ed.): The Reichenauer glosses . Part I + II in two volumes.

Web links

• Digitization of the manuscript in the digital collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek
• Publications on the Reichenau glosses in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Short and well-founded introduction to Old High German glossing - e-learning project of the University of Zurich (free registration required)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Wilhelm Klein: "Latin and Romance in the Reichenau glosses". In: NGH , No. 34, 1965. P. 186.