Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus Vol. 1: A Collection of Old-Irish Glosses Scholia Prose and Verse (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus Vol. 1: A Collection of Old-Irish Glosses Scholia Prose and Verse<br><br>The language of these glosses is of the same kind as that of the main body of the Milan glosses only it is purer and freer from serious scribal errors particularly in the glosses assigned by Ascoli with certainty to the other hand. In some instances words or parts of words omitted by the chief glossator are supplied and it seems not improbable that we have here things omitted by the scribe in his transcription and added afterwards by a more careful copyist. The glosses are here edited after a collation made in 1887 by W. S. Of Ascoli''s edition with the manuscript. For the sake of greater clearness words written in parts in the ms. Are here written together but in every such case the ms. Reading is given.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.