Laurence Nowell, Laurence Nowell's Legal Glossary (ca. 1565 - ca. 1567)
Date
1565ca.
1567ca.
Author
Laurence
Nowell
Note: 12/10/2005
Editor
Lexicon title
Verba Anglica Obscura et Glosata Excerpta de Legibus Regni
Transcription source
Flyleaf and title-page of the copy of Richard Huloet's Abcedarium Anglico-Latinum (1552) in the University of Illinois Library (shelfmark Q. 423.71 H878a) as transcribed by Rebecca Brackmann in her article, "Laurence Nowell's Old English Legal Glossary and his Study of Quadripartitus" (2010; see below): 268-72.
Text type
manuscript
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
- Latin
- law
- Old English
Summary
152 glosses of Old English words found in documents, copied or collected by Nowell from old records.
Language
headwords: Old English
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 20
number: 20
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 152
sample: Quarentena continet 40 virgatas terræ.
number: 152
sample: Quarentena continet 40 virgatas terræ.
Modern editions
Brackmann, Rebecca. "Laurence Nowell's Old English Legal Glossary and his Study of Quadripartitus." English Law before Magna Carta: Felix Liebermann and Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen. Eds. Stefan Jurasinski, Lisi Oliver, and Andrew Rabin. Leiden: Brill, 2010. 151-72.
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Criticisms
Rosier, James L. "A New Old English Glossary: Nowell upon Huloet." Studia Neophilologica 49.2 (1977): 189-94.
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