Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Corpus Glossary The utmost brevity was stipulated for this edition. We provide text and apparatus criticus, but (professedly) nothing more. The reader may seek explanations of difficult words in Goetz' Thesaurus Glossarum and the great Latin Thesaurus; of anglo-saxon puzzles in Sweet's Old English Texts and the index of Anglia, etc.; al though our discovery of the source of each gloss will facilitate the solution or at least the new treatment of many of these problems and send to limbo many magazine-articles. Until the full fruits of this discovery have been reaped it seems premature to include notes on anglo-saxon words (a thing beyond our power) or a scientific anglo-saxon Index. Some competent Anglicist will, we hope, in the near future make a comprehensive survey of the anglo-saxon side of this glossary. And a final treatment of the all-latin items borrowed from Abstrusa and Abolita is impossible until these two glossaries have been edited or at least analysed. The Prolegomena, which could not be brief, had to be excluded. They will be found in an English Philological Society Publication ('the Corpus, Epinal, Erfurt and Leyden Glossaries, ' Oxford, 1921) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.