Ralph Lever, The Art of Reason (1573)

Date

1573

Author

Ralph Lever Note: 11/10/2005

Lexicon title

A note to vnderstand the meaning of newe deuised termes

Book title

The arte of reason, rightly termed, witcraft, teaching a perfect way to argue and dispute. Made by Raphe Leuer. Seene and allowed according to the order appointed in the Queenes Maiesties iniunctions.

Publication place

London

Publisher

H. Bynneman

Transcription source

Scolar Press facsimile (University College London). EEBO/TCP

Text type

printed book

Genre

Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions

Subject area

logic

Language

headwords: Latin
explanations: English
explanations: English

Extent

P6r-P8r

Word-group

type: alphabetical
number: 1

Word-entry

type: headword
number: 51
sample: an Endsay. 103.3. Conclusio. And after this latine worde, called a Conclusion. I call it an Endsaye, bicause it is a saying that maketh an ende of a reason.

Alston

VII.9

Schafer

1573 L

STC

15541

Facsimiles

Lever, Ralph. The Art of Reason, 1573. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 323. Menston: Scolar Press, 1972. view record

Criticisms

Howell, Wilbur Samuel. Logic and Rhetoric in England, 1500-1700. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1956. 57-63. view record
Rosier, James L. "The Vocabulary of Ralph Lever's Arte of Reason." Anglia 76 (1958): 505-09. view record
Subbiondo, Joseph L. "Ralph Lever's Witcraft: 16th-century Rhetoric and 17th-century Philosophical Language." History of Linguistics 1993. Ed. Kurt-R. Jankowsky. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1995. 179-86. view record