Gavin Douglas, Virgil's Aeneis (1710)

Date

1710

Author

Lexicographer

Lexicon title

A Glossary, Or Alphabetical Explanation Of The hard and difficult Words in Gavin Douglas's Translation of Virgil's Æneis

Book title

Virgil's Æneis, Translated into Scottish Verse, By The Famous Gawin Douglas Bishop of Dunkeld. A new edition. Wherein The many Errors of the Former are corrected, and the Defects supply'd, from an excellent Manuscript. To which is added A Large Glossary, Explaining the Difficult Words: Which may serve for a Dictionary to the Old Scottish Language. And to the whole is prefix'd An Exact Account of the Author's Life and Writings, from the best Histories and Records

Publication place

Edinburgh

Printer

Andrew Symson and Robert Freebairn

Text type

printed book

Genre

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

Subject area

dialects (in English)
Scottish

Language

headwords: Scots
explanations: English
explanations: English

Extent

B1r-Z2r

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: Growe. Adde. à C. Brit. Garu, geruuino, to shiver, to tremble for fear.

Alston

IX.71

STC

ESTC T139442