Geoffrey the Grammarian, Promptorium Parvulorum (1499)

Date

5 May 1499

Lexicographer

Geoffrey the Grammarian Note: 30/09/2005

Book title

Promptorium Paruulorum

Printer

Richard Pynson

Publisher

Fredrici Egmondt and Petre Post Pascha

Transcription source

English Linguistics facsimile

Text type

printed book

Genre

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies

Subject area

Latin

Summary

The title means "A storeroom for young scholars."

Abbreviations are normally expanded in the LEME transcription, but contractions for grammatical terms and sources remain as they are. The most important are: coniugacionis (co., con., coni., coniu., conga.), declinationis (d., de., dec., decl., decli., declina., declinati.), feminini (f., fe., femini.), masculini (m., ma., mas., masc., mascu., masculi.), neutrum (n., ne., neu., neut.), generis (g., ge., gen., gene.), prime (p., pri.), secunde (s., se., sec., scde), tercie (t., te., ter.), quarte (q., qrte., quar), omnia (o.), aduerbia (aduerb.), and deponens (depon.). There are also contractions for sources such as the Catholicon of Johannes de Janua (Ca., Cat., Cath., Catho.), Huguitio of Pisa (Hug.), William Brito of Wales (Brit., Brito), Campus Florum, attributed to Thomas Walleys (C.F., Cam. flo.), the Dictionarius of Johannes de Garlandia (dicc., etc.), and Robert Kilwardby (k.).

Language

headwords: English
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin

Incipit

Incipit prologus in libellu<i>m</i> qui dicitur promptorius puerorum

Extent

226

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
number: 10502
sample: Agrotenyd wyth mete or drynke. Ingurgita tus ta .tum.

Alston

XV.134

STC

20434

Catalog

Duff, E. Gordon. "Early Printed Books to 1558." Bibliotheca Pepysiana. Part II. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1914. 352. view record
Vancil, David E., ed. Incunable Dictionaries: A Checklist and Publishing History. Terre Haute, Indiana: Friends of the Cunningham Memorial Library, 1994. 286-92. view record
King's College Cambridge. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts other than Oriental in the Library of King's College, Cambridge. Ed. Montague Rhodes James. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1895. no. 8. (15th cent.; used by Way, pp. 13-14) view record

Other editions

British Library Additional MS 22,556;
British Library Additional MS 37,789, fols. 1-83;
British Library Sloane MS 1044, fol. 366;
British Library Harley MS 221, fols. 1-205 [1440];
British Library Harley 2274, no. 21, fols. 63-77 (fragment);
Phillipps MS 8306 (Heber Library, no. 1360): "Promptorium Parvulorum, secundum vulgarem modem loquendi Orientalium Anglorum ... `Brooke owyt yis Boke' 15thc." (Phillipps 1968: 127);
Winchester Cathedral Chapter Library;
King's College, Cambridge;
St. John's College, Cambridge;
Emmanuel College, Cambridge (fragment in binding);
1508 August 12: STC 20435 (Alston XV.135);
1511 January 17: STC 20436 (Alston XV.136);
1512 May 26: STC 20437 (Alston XV.137);
1516 September 5: STC 20438 (Alston XV.138);
1528 May 13: STC 20439 (Alston XV.XV.139)

Facsimiles

Anonymous. Promptorium Parvulorum. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 108. Menston: Scolar Press, 1968. view record

Modern editions

Anonymous. The Promptorium Parvulorum. The First English Dictionary. c. 1440 A.D.. Ed. Anthony Lawson Mayhew. Early English Text Society Extra Series 102. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Henry Trowde, Oxford University Press, 1908. view record
Starnes, De Witt Talmage. Renaissance Dictionaries, English-Latin and Latin-English. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1954. 3-18. view record
Way, Albert, ed. Promptorium Parvulorum sive Clericorum. Camden Society Nos. 25, 44, 89. London: n.p., 1843-1865. view record

Criticisms

Voigts, Linda, and Frank Stubbings. "Promptorium parvulorum: Manuscript Fragments at Emmanuel College and their Relation to Pynson's Editio princeps." Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 9.4 (1989): 358-71. view record
Stein, Gabriele. The English Dictionary before Cawdrey. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1985. 91-106. view record
Burnley, J. D. "Geoffrey the Grammarian (fl. 1440)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Eds. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. view record