English abbot and prolific writer in Old English of hagiography, homilies and biblical commentaries (c.955-c.1010)

Dictionarivm saxonico-latino-anglicum. Voces, phrasesque præcipuas anglo-saxonicas, e libris, sive manuscriptis, sive typis excusis, aliisque monumentis ... collectas; cum latina et anglica vocum interpretatione complectens ... / Opera & stvdio Gvliel. Somneri Cantuariensis. Accesservnt Ælfrici Abbatis grammatica latino-saxonica, cvm glossario suo ejusdem generis.

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