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This is the first of three volumes offering a new history of lexicography in and beyond the early modern British Isles. This volume focuses on the period from the end of the Middle Ages to the year 1600, exploring the first printed dictionaries, Latin and foreign language dictionaries, and specializ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Considine, John (John P.) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Series:Considine, John (John P.). Dictionaries in the English-speaking world, 1500-1800.
Subjects:
Lexicography > Great Britain > History > 16th century.
Lexicographers > England > History > 16th century.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries > Great Britain > History and criticism.
Lexicographie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Lexicographes > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Lexicographers
Lexicography
England
Great Britain
1500-1599
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The medieval inheritance
  • The first printed dictionaries of English, French, and Latin
  • Palsgrave and some contemporaries
  • The Dictionary of Sir Thomas Elyot
  • Polyglot dictionaries
  • Bilingual dictionaries of vernacular languages in the 1540s and 1550s
  • Latin dictionaries of the 1550s
  • The Thesaurus of Thomas Cooper
  • Elizabethan dictionaries of vernacular languages before Florio
  • Dictionaries of Latin from 1565 to 1580
  • Dictionaries of Latin and Greek from 1581 to 1600
  • Wordlists with Hebrew, Arabic, and Armenian
  • The dictionaries of Florio and Minsheu
  • Specialized wordlists of English after the 1530s
  • Lists of old words
  • Lists of hard words, and of words in general use.