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called him a "man of great learning and a good servant to his master". Besides his dictionary and grammar, his working notebook also became part of the Cotton library, now manuscript
Vitellius D.vii. Other of his manuscripts, either written or acquired by him, were either given to Corpus Christi
245:, held until 1578. Unusually for the time, besides Greek and Latin Joscelyn was a scholar of Hebrew. From Parker's interest in the history of early Christianity, and to discover more information about the growth of papal power in the Middle Ages, Joscelyn also began to study
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English-Latin dictionary he worked on, but which was never completed. The dictionary was, however, of great help to later Old English scholars, as it passed into the hands of Robert Cotton, and became part of the
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church. Joscelyn helped discover lost manuscripts, obtained them for Parker, and prepared them for publication. Joscelyn also acquired manuscripts for himself, 40 of which were written in Old
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as manuscripts Titus A xv and Titus A xvi. Joscelyn's written work on Old
English grammar also became part of the Cotton library, but was lost after Cotton loaned the manuscript to
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English have been called "a significant contribution to the development of the study of the language". The historian
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In 1559, shortly after he was appointed as archbishop, Matthew Parker, the
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Graham, Timothy (2001). "Glosses and Notes in Anglo-Saxon
Manuscripts". In Pulsiano, Philip; Treharne, Elaine (eds.).
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Graham, Timothy (2009). "Anglo-Saxon Studies: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries". In Owen-Crocker, Gale R. (ed.).
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Bately, J. (1992). "John Joscelyn and the Laws of the Anglo-Saxon kings". In Korhammer, M.; et al. (eds.).
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