Nomina membrorum in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 730

Abstract

This essay offers a study of the sources and analogues of the list of body parts preserved in one of the thirteenth-century glossaries in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 730. As noted by previous scholars, the bulk of this glossary derives from the chapter on body parts in Ælfric's Glossary; however, this main batch was augmented by means of glossae collectae from the Lorica of Laidcenn and Isidore's Etymologiae.