William Wood, New Englands Prospect (1634)

Date

1634

Author

William Wood Note: 15/10/2005

Lexicon title

Nomenclator

Book title

New Englands Prospect. A true, lively and experimentall description of that part of America, commonly called New England: discovering the state of that Countrie, both as it stands to our new-come English Planters; and to the old Native Inhabitants

Publication place

London

Printer

Thomas Cotes

Publisher

John Bellamie

Transcription source

Theatrum Orbis Terrarum facsimile (Bodleian Library)

Text type

printed book

Genre

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies

Subject area

• Algonkian
• travel

Summary

Glossary of the Massachusett (Wampanoag, Algonkian) language

Language

headwords: Massachuset
explanations: English
explanations: English

Extent

o2r-o4r

Word-group

type: other
number: 29

Word-entry

type: headword
number: 384
sample: Hub hub hub come come come

Alston

XIV.536

STC

25957

Other editions

1635: STC 25958;
1639: STC 25959

Facsimiles

Wood, William. New Englands prospect . The English experience, no. 68. Amsterdam and New York: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and Da Capo Press, 1968. view record

Modern editions

Wood, William. Wood's New-England's Prospect. Boston: n.p., 1865. view record

Criticisms

Young, Alexander. Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay from 1623 to 1636: now first collected from original records and contemporaneous manuscripts, and illustrated with notes. Boston: A. Little, 1846. view record
Aubin, George F. "Toward the Linguistic History of an Algonquian Dialect: Observations on the Wood Vocabulary." Papers of the Ninth Algonquian Conference. Ed. William Cowan. Ottawa: Carleton University, 1978. 127-37. view record