• Part 1 Introduction: Latin and vernacular glossing; the variety of glossing. Part 2 Literature: the auctores and the "Liber Catonianus". Part 3 Grammar: the grammars; Aelfric; miscellaneous grammatical treatises. Part 4 Wordbooks: Adam of Petit Pont's "De Utensilibus"; Alexander Nequam's "De Nominibus Utensilium"; John of Garland's "Dictionarius"; John of Garland's "Commentarius". Part 4 Integrated glosses: commentaries by Alexander Nequam; an anonymous commentary. Part 6 Exotica: introduction; the "Exoticon" of Alexander of Hales; the "Distigium" ("Cornutus Antiquus"); the "Merarium". Part 7 Dictionaries: the authorities; John of Garland's "Unus Omnium".

A major contribution to the history of language, literature, education and manuscript studies in the middle ages... The glosses throw light on two topics. They tell us about schools...[and] they are also informative about the status and use of languages at a time when three tongues were in verbal and written use in England... It is one of the virtues of this excellent work that, as well as providing so much information, it stimulates fresh thoughts and opens up new lines of research.