Francis Tate, Lexicon Juris (ca. 1600 - 1611)
Date
1600ca.
1611
Lexicographer
Book title
Lexicon juris
Transcription source
Cambridge University Library MS Ff.5.15
Text type
manuscript
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
law
Summary
Attributed to Francis Tate by J. H. Baker and J. S. Ringrose, Legal Manuscripts (1996): 249, 524. A four-column legal lexicon with mainly Latin but some English headwords, and Greek, with about 820 word-entries from "Abavilo" (2r) to "Zuchæ" (302r).
Language
headwords: Latin
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
302 fols.
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Abavilo. a græco βαλλω hoc est mitto, sumptum est. Hung. (2r)
sample: Abavilo. a græco βαλλω hoc est mitto, sumptum est. Hung. (2r)
