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The Expositiones Vocabulorum Biblie (Exposition of Bible Words) is a hand-written, parchment book in Latin written (or inspired) by the 12th century clergyman William Brito (Guillaume le Breton). It is, in essence, a dictionary.〔(Priceless 14th century Latin 'dictionary' that let nuns translate the bible and survived the Dissolution of the Monasteries goes on display for the first time ), Sam Webb, Daily Mail, 15 April 2013〕 It gives explanations, derivations and etymologies of words, some from Greek or Hebrew, for the most difficult words in the Vulgate Bible.〔 Entries are arranged in alphabetical order, demonstrating William's wide knowledge, many drawn from a range of classical, patristic and medieval writers.〔 There is at least one known copy, now owned by the National Trust in Britain and as of April 2013 is on display at Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire.〔〔 It is one of the very few documents to survive King Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.〔 ==National Trust copy== The National Trust book is bound (or re-bound) in wooden front and back panels, with leather bindings.〔 It shows signs that it would have originally been chained (for security and safety) in an alcove for common use by people within the Abbey, and originally used to assist with translation of the Bible by the nuns of Lacock Abbey.〔〔(Lacock Abbey displays 14th Century bible 'dictionary' ), BBC, 16 April 2013〕 It is written in maybe four different hands as a collegial work by monks.〔 Various notes and papers specific to Lacock Abbey have been bound into this volume over the years, further linking it to the site.〔 This volume realised £46,850 at auction in 2011.〔(WILLIAM BRITO or GUILLAUME LE BRETON (mid-13th century), Expositiones Vocabulorum Biblie, in Latin, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM ), Christies, description: Sale 8002 Lot 11, accessed 15 April 2013〕 It was sold at Christies on 23 November 2011, by the Talbot family that once owned Lacock Abbey, of whom William Henry Fox Talbot is perhaps the best-known member as the inventor the calotype process, a precursor to photographic processes of the 19th and 20th centuries. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Expositiones vocabulorum biblie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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