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The Antwerp-London Glossaries are a set of eleventh-century glossaries found in the margins of what was once a single manuscript of the Excerptiones Prisciani. They provide important evidence for Old English vocabulary, and in David W. Porter's estimation, the glossaries offer "a vivid picture of Anglo-Saxon school texts and the environment that produced them".[1]: 170
Now split in two, the manuscript is held as Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, 16.2 and London, British Library, Add. 32246. The cities in which this dismembered manuscript is held give their name to the glossaries. The glossaries are thought to have been produced at Abingdon Abbey by a group of scholars who also produced the exceptionally densely glossed copy of Aldhelm's Prosa de virginitate in the manuscript Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale 1650 (which might also once have been part of the same manuscript).[1]: 170
A key early study of the glossary was undertaken by Max Förster.[2]
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