Anthony Huish, Priscianus Nascens, or a Key to the Grammar School (1660)

Date

1660

Author

Book title

Priscianus Nascens, Or, A Key to the Grammar School. Serving much to the Exposition of the Grammatical Rules of Lilly, and the more easie and certain Translating of English into Latine

Publication place

London

Publisher

William Garret

Text type

printed book

Genre

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies

Subject area

grammar
Latin

Summary

(a) The English Index. In Which when you have found the Latine word you seek after, go with it to the foregoing Latine Index, where you shall finde directions in what Declention, kind of Adjectives rank of Verbs or participles you shall find it declined. (b) An Index exactly declining and shewing the Conjugation, Declension &c. Of each word of the Handmaid to the Syntax and the Priscians Rules

Language

headwords: English, Latin
explanations: Latin, English
explanations: Latin, English

Extent

(a) Vol. 1: h5v-i3v. (b) Vol. 2: h6r-k6r

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: (a) an Age, seculum. (h5v); (b) "Absens, entis. A. F. absent. (

Alston

XVI.247

Wing

H3358b

Other editions

1663: Wing H3358c (Alston XVI.248);
1664: Wing H3358d (Alston XVI.249);
1669: Wing H3358a (Alston XVI.250);
1670: Wing H3357 (Alston XVI.251)

Criticisms

Facchinetti, Roberta. "Bilingual Lexicography in 17th-century England: The Case of Anthony Huish." Linguistica e filologia 3 (1996): 209-29. view record
Facchinetti, Roberta. "Anthony Huish: A 17th-century English Grammarian." Advances in English Historical Linguistics (1996). Eds. Jacek Fisiak and Marcin Krygier. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1998. 53-62. view record