Laurence Nowell, Laurence Nowell's Glosses in a Copy of Richard Howlet's Abcedarium (1552) (ca. 1565 - ca. 1570)

Date

1565ca. 1570ca.

Lexicographer

Laurence Nowell Note: 12/10/2005

Lexicon title

[Laurence Nowell's Glosses in a Copy of Richard Howlet's Abcedarium (1552)]

Transcription source

University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign Shelfmark Q. 423.71 H878a, as transcribed by Rebecca Brackmann in her "Language, Land, and Law: Laurence Nowell's Anglo-Saxon Studies in Elizabethan England" (Ph.D. diss. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005: 262-322). The glosses appear in the appendix, which has the following appended note: "The following appendix lists the words Nowell wrote in the margins of his Abcedarium. The appendix is alphabetized on the Old English words, as Nowell’s glossary is not, and provides next to them the Modern English headwords in the printed dictionary. Space does not allow me to include the Latin of Howlet’s dictionary as well; Latin definitions are only included if Nowell wrote them in himself. Entries Nowell entered in the margins or before and after column headings, and for which all definitions are therefore his own, are noted as such."

Text type

manuscript

Genre

Bilingual lexicon

Subject area

Old English

Summary

Marginal Old English glosses to English words in Richard Howlet's English-Latin dictionary Abcedarium (1552). All Old English words are Nowell's, but most Early Modern translations are Richard Howlet's (here treated as editorial additions so as not to duplicate text in his dictionary), with the exception of about 480 marginal word-entries, which normally have both Old English and corresponding English words and can be credited entirely to Nowell.

Language

headwords: Old English
explanations: English
other languages: Latin, Greek
explanations: English

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
number: 4589
sample: vnwlitig. Fowle euil fauored whore

Modern editions

Brackmann, Rebecca. Language, Land, and Law: Laurence Nowell’s Anglo-Saxon Studies in Sixteenth-Century England. Ph.D. diss. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: n.p., 2005. 262-322. view record