Francis Beaumont, Grammar Essay (ca. 1602 - 1605)
Date
1602ca.
1605
Author
Transcription source
British Library Sloane MS 1709, no. 2
Text type
manuscript
Genre
Grammars
Subject area
grammar
Extent
fols. 12-22
Word-group
type: other
Word-entry
type: other
sample: Gramaticae quatuor sunt partes (sayth Lyly) orthographia, which is thus orthographia, o.r.t.h.o.g.r.a.p.h.i.a. and not .f.i.a. Etemologia which is thus etemologia or deriv'd Etumos and logos or trew reason, Syntaxis which is thus ordered hae syntaxis tes syntaxios, Prosodia which is thus accented prosodia allthough yt was pronounced prosodia amongest the barbarous grecians And before I beginn this lecture o thou singulariter nominativo haec Musa and thowe O pluraliter nominativo hae Musaeall nyne of you assist me in yt.
sample: Gramaticae quatuor sunt partes (sayth Lyly) orthographia, which is thus orthographia, o.r.t.h.o.g.r.a.p.h.i.a. and not .f.i.a. Etemologia which is thus etemologia or deriv'd Etumos and logos or trew reason, Syntaxis which is thus ordered hae syntaxis tes syntaxios, Prosodia which is thus accented prosodia allthough yt was pronounced prosodia amongest the barbarous grecians And before I beginn this lecture o thou singulariter nominativo haec Musa and thowe O pluraliter nominativo hae Musaeall nyne of you assist me in yt.
Alston
1962: 1
Catalog
Kennedy, Arthur Garfield. A Bibliography on Writings on the English Language from the Beginning of Printing to the End of 1922. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1927.
12554-55, 12564, 12571.
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Criticisms
Mark Eccles, "Francis Beaumont's Grammar Lecture," Review of English Studies 16.64 (1940): 402-14.
Wood, D. N. C. "Elizabethan English and Richard Carew." Neophilologus 61.2 (1977): 304-15.
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Sources
Huguet, Edmond, ed. La Précellence du Langage François. Paris: A. Colin, 1896.
- Huguet, Edmond, ed. La Précellence du Langage François. Paris: A. Colin, 1896. view record
