Endlicher's_Glossary

Endlicher's Glossary

Endlicher's Glossary

Eighth-century list of Gaulish words


Endlicher's Glossary (Latin: De nominibus Gallicis) is a glossary composed of eighteen lines of Gaulish words, mainly to do with regional placenames, translated into Latin. There are seven surviving copies of it, with the oldest dating to the 8th century.

The Vienna manuscript containing Endlicher's Glossary

It is named after Stephan Endlicher who first described it in 1836. It is also known as the Vienna Glossary after the city where the first manuscript was discovered and is still held, in the Austrian National Library.[1]

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References

  1. "Endlicher's Glossary" (PDF). www.RomanEraNames.uk. Retrieved 5 April 2019.

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