The List of <i>Notae</i> in the <i>Liber Glossarum</i>
Evina Steinová
In both Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, a special class of marginal symbols, known in Latin as notae, were used to annotate manuscript text. The shapes these their names, functions described technical texts that had form lists signs, sign treatises. Many medieval manuscripts contain treatises either ancient or origin. One such treatise was incorporated into Liber Glossarum, large glossographic collection survives number Carolingian manuscripts. This list is, like many other treatises, compilation older sources. While it is difficult analyze direct sources which are lost, we possess main source namely Etymologiae Isidore Seville. A comparison Glossarum with allows us processes by compilers former rather than just shines light also on how preserved may have come being. Moreover, provides evidence oldest core this glossary came being Iberian peninsula includes material been Seville for Etymologiae, suggested Anne Grondeux.
The Journal of medieval Latin