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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
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155:(Anglo-Saxon) language. He also studied the early law codes of England. His Old English dictionary, although not published during his lifetime, contributed greatly to the study of that language. Many of his manuscripts and papers eventually became part of the collections of
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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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in 1545, attaining a
Bachelor of Arts in 1549. In the academic year 1550â1551 he taught Latin at Queens' College, and the following school year he taught Greek. At the end of 1552, he was awarded a
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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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Joscelyn's contributions to the study of Old
English have been called "a significant contribution to the development of the study of the language". The historian
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Manuscripts: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Culture presented to Helmut Gneuss on the Occasion of his Sixty-fifth Birthday
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Recovery of the Past in Early Elizabethan England: Documents by John Bale and John Joscelyn from the Circle of Matthew Parker
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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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