John Healey, The Discovery of a New World, or A Description of the South Indies (1609)
Date
1609
Translator
Lexicon title
Of the Vniuersity that is in Fooliana the fickle
Book title
The Discovery of a New World or A Description of the South Indies
Publication place
London
Publisher
Edward Blount and W. Barrett
Transcription source
EEBO
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
travel
Summary
A translation of Joseph Hall's parodic Mundus alter et idem (1605?) that treats a scholarly language termed Supermonical, invented by scholars of a college of Gew-gawiasters in a town named Whether-for-a-pennia in a country named Fooliana.
Language
headwords: English
Extent
143-52
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: gloss
sample: A compound of corall and the lobster, Dubelcolep.
sample: A compound of corall and the lobster, Dubelcolep.
STC
12686
Other editions
1613-14: STC 12686.3
ESTC
S92843
