Henry Spelman, Archaismus Graphicus (1606)
Date
1606
Author
Henry
Spelman
Note: 13/10/2005
Book title
Archaismus Graphicus
Transcription source
British Library Stowe MS 1059
Text type
manuscript
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
- Latin
- spelling
Summary
Mainly a glossary on abbreviations in Latin mss
Language
headwords: Latin
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
93 leaves
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
Catalog
National Library of Scotland. Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired since 1925. Vol. II. Edinburgh: HMSO, 1966.
116.
MS 2774: early 18th-century copy of Sir Henry Spelman's "Archaismus Graphicus"
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Other editions
Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS 238 digital images at parker-library@corpus.cam.ac.uk; Bodleian Library Rawlinson MS B.462; Phillipps MS 4261 (Phillipps 1968: 66); Phillipps MS 7102 (Phillipps 1968). Also National Library of Scotland MS 2774 (early 18th-century copy).
Criticisms
Powicke, Sir F. M. "Sir Henry Spelman and the Concilia." Proceedings of the British Academy 16 (1926): 33 ff..
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