Marc Lescarbot, Nova Francia (1609)
Date
1609
Author
Translator
Lexicon title
Book II. CHAP. VII. Of the Language
Book title
Noua Francia: Or the Description of that Part of New France, which is one continent with Virginia. Described in the three late Voyages and Plantation made by Monsieur de Monts, Monsieur du Pont-Graué, and Monsieur de Poutrincourt, into the countries called by the Frenchmen La Cadie, lying to the Southwest of Cape Breton. Together with an excellent seuerall Treatie of all the commodities of the said countries, and maners of the naturall inhabitants of the same
Publication place
Londini
Printer
Eliot's Court Press
Publisher
Georgii Bishop
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
Souriquois
Summary
II.7 has vocabularies
Extent
168-72
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: In like maner Iames Quartier hath left vnto vs a kinde of Dictionary of the language of Canada, wherein our Frenchmen that haunt there, in these daies, vnderstand nothing: and therefore I would not insert it heere: onely I haue there found Caraconi which signifieth bread, and now they say Caracona, which I esteeme to be a word of Basque. For the satisfaction of some I will set heere some numbers of the ancient and new language of Canada.
The old. The new.
1 Segada. 1 Begou. ... (p. 169)
sample: In like maner Iames Quartier hath left vnto vs a kinde of Dictionary of the language of Canada, wherein our Frenchmen that haunt there, in these daies, vnderstand nothing: and therefore I would not insert it heere: onely I haue there found Caraconi which signifieth bread, and now they say Caracona, which I esteeme to be a word of Basque. For the satisfaction of some I will set heere some numbers of the ancient and new language of Canada.
The old. The new.
1 Segada. 1 Begou. ... (p. 169)
Alston
XIV
STC
15491
Other editions
1626: STC 15492
Facsimiles
Lescarbot, Marc. Nova Francia / Marc Lescarbot. The English experience, no. 877. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1977.
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Modern editions
Osborne, Thomas. A Collection of Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Authentic Writers in our own Tongue, which have not before been Collected in English, or have only been Abridged in other Collections. 2 vols. London: Thomas Osborne, 1745.
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Lescarbot, Marc. Nova Francia, a Description of Acadia, 1606. Trans. Pierre Erondelle. New York: Harper, 1928. view record
Lescarbot, Marc. The History of New France. Trans. William Lawson Grant. Publications of the Champlain Society, vols. 1, 7, 11. Toronto: Champlain Society, 1907-14. view record
Lescarbot, Marc. Nova Francia, a Description of Acadia, 1606. Trans. Pierre Erondelle. New York: Harper, 1928. view record
Lescarbot, Marc. The History of New France. Trans. William Lawson Grant. Publications of the Champlain Society, vols. 1, 7, 11. Toronto: Champlain Society, 1907-14. view record
Sources
- Lescarbot, Marc. Histoire de la nouvelle France, contenant les navigations, découvertes, et habitations faites par les François és Indes Occidentales et Nouvelle France ... depuis cent ans jusques à hui. 2 parts. Paris: n.p., n.d. 1609. view record
