Anonymous, Ortus Vocabulorum (1500)
Date
1500
Author
Book title
Ortus Vocabulorum
Publication place
Westminster
Publisher
Wynkyn de Worde
Transcription source
Bodleian Library; Huntington Library; British Library
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
Latin
Language
headwords: Latin
explanations: Latin / English
explanations: Latin / English
explanations: Latin / English
explanations: Latin / English
Incipit
Prologus in libru<i>m</i> qui ortus vocabulo<i>rum</i> dicitur felicit<i>er</i> incipit
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 184
number: 184
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 25437
sample: Abdicatorium. a horde hows. Inde abdicator. m.t.
number: 25437
sample: Abdicatorium. a horde hows. Inde abdicator. m.t.
Alston
XV.142
STC
13829
Catalog
Duff, E. Gordon. "Early Printed Books to 1558." Bibliotheca Pepysiana. Part II. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1914.
202.
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Vancil, David E., ed. Incunable Dictionaries: A Checklist and Publishing History. Terre Haute, Indiana: Friends of the Cunningham Memorial Library, 1994. 603-18. view record
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. 2733, 2737, 2739, 2741, 2744. view record
Vancil, David E., ed. Incunable Dictionaries: A Checklist and Publishing History. Terre Haute, Indiana: Friends of the Cunningham Memorial Library, 1994. 603-18. view record
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. 2733, 2737, 2739, 2741, 2744. view record
Other editions
Bristol University MS;
1504 September (J. Pelgrim [J. Barbier]): STC 13829.5 (Alston XV.143);
1508? (H. Goes): STC 13829.7 (Alston XV.144);
1509? (Julian Notary): STC 13829.9 (Alston XV.145);
1509 September 11 (Pynson; two variant editions): STC 13830-0.3 (Alston XV.144-7);
1509 December 1 (de Worde): STC 13830.7 (Alston XV.148);
1511 August 12 (de Worde): STC 13831 (Alston XV.149);
1514 February 15 (de Worde): STC 13832 (Alston XV.150);
1516 July 26 (de Worde): STC 13833 (Alston XV.151);
1517 May 30 (Rouen): STC 13833.2 (Alston XV.152);
1518 October 22 (de Worde): STC 13834 (Alston XV.153);
1520 October 5 (Rouen): STC 13835 (Alston XV.154);
1528 April 1 (de Worde): STC 13836 (Alston XV.155);
1532 February 8 (de Worde): STC 13837 (Alston XV.156)
1504 September (J. Pelgrim [J. Barbier]): STC 13829.5 (Alston XV.143);
1508? (H. Goes): STC 13829.7 (Alston XV.144);
1509? (Julian Notary): STC 13829.9 (Alston XV.145);
1509 September 11 (Pynson; two variant editions): STC 13830-0.3 (Alston XV.144-7);
1509 December 1 (de Worde): STC 13830.7 (Alston XV.148);
1511 August 12 (de Worde): STC 13831 (Alston XV.149);
1514 February 15 (de Worde): STC 13832 (Alston XV.150);
1516 July 26 (de Worde): STC 13833 (Alston XV.151);
1517 May 30 (Rouen): STC 13833.2 (Alston XV.152);
1518 October 22 (de Worde): STC 13834 (Alston XV.153);
1520 October 5 (Rouen): STC 13835 (Alston XV.154);
1528 April 1 (de Worde): STC 13836 (Alston XV.155);
1532 February 8 (de Worde): STC 13837 (Alston XV.156)
Facsimiles
Hortus Vocabulorum. English linguistics, 1500-1800; no. 123. Menston: Scolar Press, 1968.
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Modern editions
Cannon, Alan George. "Hortus Vocabulorum: Edited from the first Wynkyn de Worde Edition, 1500." Ph.D. dissertation, King's College London. 6 vols. Maugham Library, Chancery Lane. .
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Criticisms
Blackwell, Constance W. T. "Creating Definitions for Words: the Ortus Vocabulorum (1500) versus Vives (1523) and Elyot (1538)." Italia ed Europa nella linguistica del Rinascimento: confronti e relazioni: atti del convegno internazionale, Ferrara, Palazzo Paradiso, 20-24 March 1991. Eds. Mirko Tavoni and others. 2 vols. Vol. II. Ferrara: Franco Cosimo Panini, 1996. 235-53.
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Starnes, De Witt Talmage. Renaissance Dictionaries, English-Latin and Latin-English. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1954. 28-37. view record
Stein, Gabriele. The English Dictionary before Cawdrey. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1985. 74-90. view record
Starnes, De Witt Talmage. Renaissance Dictionaries, English-Latin and Latin-English. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1954. 28-37. view record
Stein, Gabriele. The English Dictionary before Cawdrey. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1985. 74-90. view record
