Robert Commaundre, The Book of Heraldry (ca 1590 - ca 1613)
Date
1590ca
1613ca
Author
Book title
The Booke of Heraldrye and other thinges togither with the Order of Coronacions
Transcription source
British Library Egerton MS 2642
Text type
manuscript
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
Latin
Summary
(a) "The Names of Certen Peeces of great Gonnes and Ordenance vsed by Sea and Land in tyme of warre & The Names of All suche Peeces of Armure As well for Horssemen as ffootemen as bee vsed in tyme of warre"; (b) "Of the severall disorders and degrees amonges oure Idle vagabondes of England & Of the Severall dysseorders & degrees amonges oure Idle vagabondes of England aswell men as women" (a canting glossary)
Language
headwords: English
Extent
418 fols. (a) 150v-51r; (b) 315v-17r
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
