Eldred Revet, Definitions and Characters (ca 1650 - ca 1670)
Date
1650ca
1670ca
Author
Reuitt(alternate name for
Eldred
Revet
)
Transcription source
Cambridge University Library Dd.4.55
Text type
manuscript
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
Bible
Summary
Commonplace book with notes out of books such as "English Gentleman," "English Lawier," "The Holy Court," "Shelford's Sermons," "Dr Andrewes' `paterne of Catechisticall doctrine,' Heylin's Geog., Speculum Mundi," John Preston's Breast-plate, "`Davenantii determinationes,' &c." Most entries consist of a bibliographical reference followed by a definition-like excerpt.
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Spec. mundi pa. 296. Christall is a kinde of Ice, made of waters which congeale themselves by a vehement and very long cold. (11r)
the holy Court pag. 110 Man is an excrement of impurity in his conception, a silly creature in his birth a bagg, and sponge of ordures in his life a baite for wormes in his death. (one of several quotations for the entry on "Man," fol. 75r)
sample: Spec. mundi pa. 296. Christall is a kinde of Ice, made of waters which congeale themselves by a vehement and very long cold. (11r)
the holy Court pag. 110 Man is an excrement of impurity in his conception, a silly creature in his birth a bagg, and sponge of ordures in his life a baite for wormes in his death. (one of several quotations for the entry on "Man," fol. 75r)
Facsimiles
Cambridge University Library. British Literary Manuscripts from Cambridge University Library. Series One: the Medieval Age, c. 1150-1500. Series Two: the English Renaissance, c. 1500-c.1700 (Harvester Microform). n.p.: n.p., 1984, 1988.
Series 2.
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