Anonymous, Legal Glossary in Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon (Harley MS 2261) (after? 1475)
Date
1475after?
Lexicographer
Transcription source
British Library Harley MS 2261
Text type
manuscript
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
law
Summary
Legal glossary in an anonymous Middle English version of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon. The MED quotes sixteen entries.
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Muskenning: diuersite other chaungenge of speche in courte.
sample: Muskenning: diuersite other chaungenge of speche in courte.
Catalog
Higden, Ranulf. Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden monachi Cestrensis; together with the English translations of John Trevisa and of an unknown writer of the fifteenth century. Ed. Joseph Rawson Lumby. Trans. John Trevisa. Rerum britannicarum medii aevi scriptores; or, Chronicles and memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the middle ages, no. 41. 9 vols. London: Longman, 1865-86.
II, 95, 97.
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