caa a22 4500 388048484 CHVBK 20180307125044.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S026367510000483X doi S026367510000483X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S026367510000483X Gwara Scott University of South Carolina The transmission of the ‘Digby' corpus of bilingual glosses to Aldhelm's Prosa de virginitate [Elektronische Daten] [Scott Gwara] Aldhelm of Malmesbury's Prosa de virginitate (hereafter Pdv) can be called one of the most enduring works of Anglo-Saxon scholarship. Immensely influential in Aldhelm's lifetime, the text continued to be popular in England and on the Continent until Viking invasions put an end to native learning in the last half of the ninth century. Yet by the 920s interest in Aldhelm's prose treatise had revived, inaugurating a new movement in ‘hermeneutic' Latin that lasted, in some centres, beyond the turn of the twelfth century. Fourteen English manuscripts of Pdv document the renewed interest in Aldhelm's work. Most of these manuscripts are heavily glossed, and, indeed, some preserve about 25,000 bilingual annotations ranging from single letters or symbols to entire paragraphs copied verbatim from Isidore's Etymologiae. The density of glossing is astounding, when contrasted with the length of Pdv, about 20,000 words. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Anglo-Saxon England Cambridge University Press 27(1998-12), 139-168 0263-6751 27<139 1998 27 ASE https://doi.org/10.1017/S026367510000483X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S026367510000483X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Gwara Scott University of South Carolina NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Anglo-Saxon England Cambridge University Press 27(1998-12), 139-168 0263-6751 27<139 1998 27 ASE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge