Richard James, James' Old English-English Dictionary (ca 1600)
Date
1600ca
Lexicographer
Transcription source
Bodleian MS. James 42
Text type
manuscript
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
- Old English
- rhymes
Summary
(a) 4r-64r: Saxon-English dictionary, with some English equivalents: incipit "Abrad Exeunt. drewe";
(b) 71v-72v: Saxon-English Glossary: incipit "pyt we/ ponysshment/ he goth";
(c) 73v-75v: "olde woordes: incipit "Accoyed. pluckt downe";
(d) 76r: "Country termes": incipit "Screte";
(e) 76v-85v: rhyming words: incipit "Fragidite"
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
Catalog
Bodleian Library. A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. 7 vols. in 8. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895-1953.
3879.
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Criticisms
Hetherington, M. Sue. The Beginnings of Old English Lexicography. Spicewood, Texas: n.p., 1980.
69-71.
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