Studies in the syntax of the Lindisfarne Gospels. With appendices on some idioms in the Germanic languages.

Published by Baltimore: 1918., Johns Hopkins Press,

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xvi, 240 p.; 23.5 cm. (Hesperia, supplementary series: studies in English philology ; 5) `The present instalment of my projected Studies in the Syntax of the "Lindisfarne Gospels" is restricted to an investigation of the Participle and of the Infinitive. The main object of this instalment is to determine whether the syntax of these verbals in the Northumbrian dialect differs essentially from that in the West-Saxon dialect as set forth in the writer's monographs on the Participle and the Infinitive in the latter dialect.' (p. iii; Note: `The next instalment will be devoted to the Subjunctive Mood.' - but no more was published) -- Quoting from Walter W. Skeat's English dialects from the eighth century to the present day, 1911: `The Northumbrian glosses on the four Gospels are contained in two mss., both of remarkable interest and value. The former of these, sometimes known as the Lindisfarne MS., and sometimes as the Durham Book, is now MS. Cotton, Nero D 4 in the British Museum, and is one of the chief treasures in our national collection. It contains a beautifully executed Latin text of the four Gospels, written in the isle of Lindisfarne, by Eadfrith (bishop of Lindisfarne in 698-721), probably before 700. The interlinear Northumbrian gloss is two and a half centuries later, and was made by Aldred, a priest, about 950, at a time when the ms. was kept at Chester-le-Street, near Durham, whither it had been removed for greater safety. Somewhat later it was again removed to Durham, where it remained for several centuries.' (as quoted on p. vi) VG orig. gray linen. Lightly dampstained on outer edge.

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Title
Studies in the syntax of the Lindisfarne Gospels. With appendices on some idioms in the Germanic languages.
Author
Callaway, Morgan, Jr.
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Baltimore: 1918., Johns Hopkins Press,
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