LINDSAY, WALLACE MARTIN. - Palaeographer and philologist, b. at Pittenweem, in Scotland, on 12 Feb. 1858, d. at St. Andrews on 21 Feb. 1937. He studied at Edinburgh, at Glasgow, at Oxford; he held the university chair at St. Andrews.
He devoted his studies to many problems, leaving a considerable number of writings; but it was in the field of palaeography, of archaic Latin, and of Latin lexicography that he left a truly lasting mark. Among his palaeographical works, worthy of mention are: Early Irish minuscule script (Oxford 1910); Early Welsh script (ibid. 1912); Notae latinae (Cambridge 1915); Palaeographia latina, a periodical collection of articles on individual problems of palaeography, which however came to a halt after 6 fascicles (Oxford 1922-29), and the very fine series of the Monumenta paleographica Veronensia, in collaboration with E. Carusi, unfortunately interrupted at the 2nd fascicle (Vatican City 1929 and 1934). The fruits of his investigations into archaic Latin are, among others: The Latin language (Oxford 1894), Early Latin verse (ibid. 1922), and the editions of Plautus (2 vols., ibid. 1904) and of Terence (based on the collation of the manuscripts made by R. Kauer, ibid. 1926). Of the lexicographers he published in critical edition Isidore (ibid. 1911), Festus (Leipzig 1912) and a corpus of Glossaria latina
(5 vols., Paris 1926-32). Also to be remembered is the edition of Martial (Oxford 1903).
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