Anonymous, Rawlinson Glossary (ca. 1612 - ca 1656)

Date

1612ca. 1656ca

Author

Anonymous

Transcription source

Bodleian MS Rawlinson 108, fol. 45 ff. (microfilm)

Text type

manuscript

Genre

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

Subject area

hard words

Summary

A fragmentary English glossary, A-Ba

Language

headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English

Extent

fols. 45-89 (?); A-Ba only

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: academy -- vniversity

Catalog

Bodleian Library. A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. 7 vols. in 8. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895-1953. 14601(e). view record

Facsimiles

Bodleian Library . British Literary Manuscripts from the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The English Renaissance, c. 1500-c.1700. Series One: Part Two. Reel 25 . n.p.: Harvester Microform, 1988. view record

Criticisms

Osselton, N. E. "The First English Dictionary? A Sixteenth-century Compiler at Work." The History of Lexicography: Papers from the Dictionary Research Centre Seminar at Exeter, March 1986. Ed. R. R. K. Hartmann. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1986. 175-84. view record
Bliss, Philip. "Some Account of a Manuscript in Dr. Rawlinson's Collection in the Bodleian Library." Vol. II. The British Bibliographer (1812): 609-18. view record
Lancashire, Ian. "The Perils of Firsts: Dating Rawlinson MS Poet. 108 and Tracing the Development of Monolingual English Lexicons." Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations. Eds. Anne L. Curzon and Kimberley Emmons. Mouton: Walter de Gruyter, 2004. 229-72. view record