LINDSAY, WALLACE MARTIN. - Palaeographer and philologist, b. at Pittenweem, Scotland, 12 Feb. 1858; d. at St. Andrews, 21 Feb. 1937. He studied at Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Oxford; he held the university chair at St. Andrews.
He devoted his studies to many problems, leaving a considerable number of writings; but the fields in which he made a truly lasting mark were palaeography, archaic Latin, and Latin lexicography. Among his palaeographical works worthy of mention are: Early Irish minuscule script (Oxford 1910); Early Welsh script (there 1912); Notae latinae (Cambridge 1915); Palaeographia latina, a periodical collection of articles on individual problems of palaeography, which ceased, however, after six issues (Oxford 1922–29); and the splendid series Monumenta paleographica Veronensis, in collaboration with E. Carusi, unfortunately interrupted with the second fascicle (Vatican City 1929 and 1934). Among the fruits of his investigations into archaic Latin were: The Latin language (Oxford 1894), Early Latin verse (there 1922), and the editions of Plauto (2 vols., there 1904) and Terenzio (based on the collation of manuscripts made by R. Kauer, there 1926). Of the lexicographers he published critical editions of Isidoro (there 1911), Festo (Leipzig 1912), and a corpus of Glossaria latina
(5 vols., Paris 1926–32). Also worth recalling is his edition of Marziale (Oxford 1903).