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turf

noun, f., root decl., 15 occ.

Type: plant-related

Last Update: 31.08.2011 07:30

Old-English: tȓf, turf, turw, tyrb, tyrf,

Latin (Machine generated): CESPITE, CESPITES, CÆSPITE, FERACES GLEBAS .I. FERTILES, FLOREI CESPITIS, GLEBA, GLEBE, GLEBULIS, GLEBULIS CESPITIBUS, IN CESPITES,

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Reference Last Update: 19.10.2022 08:32

Meanings Last Update: 28.10.2008 15:12

  • A: plant-related
    -, turf, Rasen
  • A: plant-related
    -, greensward, Rasenstück
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Comment Last Update: 08.11.2010 11:41

  • Comment on (A): -, turf, Rasen

    L C(A)ESPES= 'lawn,Rasen', 1.) In a narrow sense mostly bricks of dug out grass including the roots and the soil. 2) In a broader sense the thick grass of meadows; GLEBA = 'piece of dirt, soil; Erdstück, Scholle'.

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Occurrences Last Update: 13.01.2011 15:22

  • AldVGo, 2649 GLEBULIS CESPITIBUS turwum[1]
  • AldVNa, 1,2734 GLEBULIS turfum
  • AldVNa, 2,104 GLEBULIS turfum
  • AntK, 138,7 GLEBA turf
  • C 45.1, Meritt 4, 310 CESPITE tyrf
  • C 97.2, Sed, Meritt 28, 332 CÆSPITE tȓf[2]
  • ClQu, 125,1 GLEBULIS turfum
  • ClSt, C 749 CESPITES tyrf
  • ClSt, G 20 GLEBULIS turfum
  • ClSt, G 21 GLEBE tyrf
  • ClSt, I 337 IN CESPITES on tyrf
  • Cp, 467(C 351) CESPITES tyrb
  • HA, 290/8[3] dsg tyrf
  • HlOl, F 177 FERACES GLEBAS .I. FERTILES þa wæstmbære[4]tyrf
  • HlOl, F 492 FLOREI CESPITIS blowendre tyrf
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Research Literature

AldVGo: Goossens, Louis. The Old English Glosses of 'MS. Brussels, Royal Library 1650'. (Aldhelm's De Laudibus Virginitatis) Edited with an introduction, notes and indexes. Klasse der Letteren. Verhandelingen. 36,74. Brussels: Paleis der Academien, 1974.
AldVNa: Napier, Arthur Sampson. Old English Glosses. Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series. 11. Reprint of Oxford, Clarendon Press 1900. Hildesheim: Olms, 1969.
AntK: Kindschi, Lowell. The Latin-Old English Glossaries in Planton-Moretus Manuscript 43 and British Museum Manuscript Additional 32,246. Unpubl. diss. Stanford University: 1955.
BW II: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 2. Bern, Frankfurt am Main, München: Lang, 1976.
BW III: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
ClQu: Quinn, John Joseph. The Minor Latin-Old English Glossaries in MS Cotton Cleopatra A III. Diss Stanford U. 1956.
ClSt: Stryker, William Garlington. The Latin-Old English Glossary in MS Cotton Cleopatra A III. Unpubl. diss. Stanford Univ.: 1952.
Cp: Hessels, John Henry. An Eighth-Century Latin Anglo-Saxon Glossary. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1890.
Cp: Lindsay, Wallace Martin. The Corpus Glossary. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1921.
Cp: Wynn, J. B. An Edition of the Anglo-Saxon Corpus Glosses. Unpubl. Diss. Oxford: 1961.
HA: Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.). "Herbarium Apuleii Platonici." In: Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England. Being a Collection of Documents, for the Most Part never before Printed, Illustrating the History of Sience in this Country before the Norman Conquest. Vol. 1. Rev. Ed. by Charles Singer. London: Holland Press, 1961. 1-325.
Hl: Oliphant, Robert Thompson. The Harley Latin-Old English Glossary. Edited from British Museum MS Harley 3376, Janua Linguarum, Series Practica XX. The Hague: Mouton, 1966.
Sed: Page, R.I.. "Anglo-Saxon Scratched Glosses in a Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Manuscript." In: _Otium et Negotium. Studies in Onomatology and Library Science Presented to Olof von Feilitzen._ Stockholm: , 1973. 209-215.
WW, Prosp, Br: Wright, Thomas. Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies. 2nd ed. by Richard Paul Wülcker. Reprint of the 1884 ed. published by Trübner, London. Vol. 1: Vocabularies. Vol. 2: Indices. New York: Gordon, 1976.
Berberich, Hugo, ed. Das Herbarium Apuleii nach einer früh-mittelenglischen Fassung. Anglistische Forschungen 5. Nachdruck Amsterdam, 1966. Heidelberg: Winter, 1902.
D'Aronco, Maria Amalia and M. L. Cameron, eds.. The Old English Illustrated Pharmacopoeia: British Library Cotton Vitellius C.III. Early English Manuscripts in Faksimile 27. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1998.
DeVriend, Hubert Jan (ed.). The 'Old English Herbarium' and 'Medicina de Quadrupedibus'. Early English Text Society. Original series 286. London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Hilbelink, A.J.G. (ed.). Cotton MS Vitellius C III of the Herbarium Apuleii. Diss. Amsterdam: 1930.
Howald, Ernestus und Henricus Sigerist (eds.). Corpus Medicorum Latinorum. Bd.4. Antonii Musae de Herba Vettonica Liber. Pseudoapulei Herbarius. Anonymi de Taxone Liber. Sexti Placiti Liber Medicinae ex Animalibus etc. Leipzig: Teubner, 1927.
Hunger, Friedrich Wilhelm Tobias (ed.). The Herbal of Pseudo-Apuleius. From the ninth-century manuscript in the abbey of Monte Cassino [Codex Casinen-sis 97] together with the first printed edition of Jon. Phil. de Lignamine [Editio princeps Romae 1481] both in facsimile, described and annotated by F.W.T. Hunger. Leyden: Brill, 1935.
Ker, Neil Ripley. Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon. First published 1957. Re-issued. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.
Lendinara, Patrizia. "The Glossaries in London, BL, Cotton Cleopatra A. iii." In: _Mittelalterliche volkssprachige Glossen: Internationale Fachkonferenz des Zentrums für Mittelalterstudien der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg 2. bis 4. August 1999._ Ed. Rolf Bergmann, Elvira Glaser, and Claudine Moulin-Fankhänel. Heidelberg: Winter, 2001. 189-215.
Meritt, Herbert Dean. "Old English Scratched Glosses in Cotton Ms Tiberius C.II." American Journal of Philology 54.4 (1933): 305-322.
Meritt, Herbert Dean. Old English Glosses. MLA General Series.16. Repr. New York: 1971.
MS London, British Library, Harley 585.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C iii.
MS London, British Library, Harley 6258b.
MS London, British Library, Royal 6 A.vi..
MS Brussels, Bibliotheque Royale, 1650.
MS Oxford, Bodleian, Digby 146.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius C.ii.
MS Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, 47.
MS Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 173.
MS London, British Library, Add. 32246.
MS Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 144.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Cleopatra A.iii.
MS London, British Library, Harley 3376.
Rusche, Philip Guthrie. The Cleopatra Glossaries. Diss. Yale Univ. Yale University, 1996.
Van Arsdall, Anne. Medieval Herbal Remedies. Illustrations by Robby Poore. New York and London: Routledge, 2002.
Voss, Manfred. "Strykers Edition des alphabetischen Cleopatraglossars: Corrigenda und Addenda." AAA 13:2 (1988): 123-138.
Voss, Manfred. "Quinns Edition der kleineren Cleopatraglossare: Corrigenda und Addenda." AAA 14:2 (1989): 127-139.
[1]:

N.: "read turfum".

[2]:

N.: "For tyrf."

[3]:

Cont.: heo [=centimorbia] of anre tyrf manega bogas asendeþ.

[4]:

Oliphant reads waestmbaere.