John Thorius, The Theatre of the Earth (1601)
Date
1601
Author
John
Thorie(alternate name for
John
Thorius
)
Note: 14/10/2005
Book title
The Theatre of the Earth. Containing very short and compendious descriptions of all countries, gathered out of the cheefest Cosmographers, both ancient and moderne, and disposed in Alphabeticall order.
Publication place
London
Publisher
William Jones
Text type
printed book
Genre
Proper and place name indexes
Subject area
- geography
- place name
Summary
A place-name dictionary. Only its obviously-foreign headwords are identified as English words. Many place-names appear in an English context in earlier books, but the actual language of these word-entries is unclear.
Language
headwords: non-English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: ABahius, A name of the riuer Nilus, as being the father of riuers, by reason that by a long and winding course it spreadeth it selfe into many crooks and branches. (a4r)
sample: ABahius, A name of the riuer Nilus, as being the father of riuers, by reason that by a long and winding course it spreadeth it selfe into many crooks and branches. (a4r)
STC
23932
Other editions
1599: STC 23931; 1602: STC 23932.5, last issue, cancelled t-p and dedication (British Library copy not found, perhaps an STC error?)
Criticisms
Heninger, S. K., Jr. "Tudor Literature of the Physical Sciences." Huntington Library Quarterly 32 (1968-69): 103-33, 249-70.
130.
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Sources
- Ortelius, Abraham. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Theatrum orbis terrarum, ser. 1, v. 3. Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964. view record
