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An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary is a dictionary of Old English (also known as Anglo-Saxon). Four editions of the dictionary were published. It has often (especially in earlier times) been considered the definitive lexicon for Old English. It is often referred to by the names of its compilers, for example Bosworth or Bosworth & Toller.
Thomas Northcote Toller (1844–1930) was the first professor of English language at Manchester and one of the editors of An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary [1] which had been begun by Joseph Bosworth. He was appointed to the chair in 1880 and retired in 1903. [2] The annual Toller Lecture, which commemorates his achievements, is held in Manchester.
Bosworth was succeeded by John Earle (1824–1903) and Arthur Sampson Napier (1853–1916). In 1916, the chair was renamed to Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in honour of Bosworth and his endowment, the first "Rawlinson and Bosworth" professor being Sir William Alexander Craigie (1867–1957), who in 1925 moved to a post at the University of Chicago (in order to work on his ...
Archived files of research materials from the creation of the Dictionary of Old English.. The dictionary was conceived in 1968 as a replacement for the Bosworth–Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, which had been compiled at a time when both the study of the Old English language and lexicographical techniques were less advanced. [3]
Wordcraft: New English to Old English Dictionary and Thesaurus. Anglo-Saxon Books. ISBN 978-1-898281-02-3. "Oxford English Dictionary Online (paid membership)". Archived from the original on 2006-06-25; Bosworth, Joseph, Toller, T. N. "An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary". Archived from the original on 2010-11-09
Bosworth and Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online Old English – Modern English dictionary at the Wayback Machine (archived 2 July 2005) Old English Glossary at the Wayback Machine (archived 22 February 2012)
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Bosworth, Joseph; Toller, Thomas Northcote (1889), An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, archived from the original on 2019-07-17; Campbell, Alistair (1972), Enlarged Addenda and Corrigenda to the Supplement of An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Based on the Manuscript Collections of Joseph Bosworth, Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-863110-1.