Laurence Nowell's Vocabularium Saxonicum

Author/Contributor(s):	Marckwardt, Albert
Publisher:	University of Michigan Press
Date:	01/01/1952
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In his Preface to Laurence Nowell's Vocabularium Saxonicum, Albert H. Marckwardt writes: Many years ago, when I first read Laurence Nowell's Vocabularium Saxonicum in manuscript, I was firmly convinced that it was of sufficient intrinsic interest to merit publication. It seemed desirable that a man like Nowell, so important in the development of Old English studies, should become more than a footnote in an occasional history of linguistic or legal scholarship. His dictionary, reflecting so clearly the personality of a true scholar with broad and human interests, deserved to be made generally available despite the advance of linguistic knowledge since its time.