Henry Hexham, A Copious English and Netherdutch Dictionary Composed out of our Best English Authors (1647 - 1648)
Date
1647
1648
Lexicographer
Henry
Hexham
Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
A Copious English and Netherduytch Dictionarie Composed out of our best English Authours. With an Appendix of the names of all kind of Beasts, Fowles, Birds, Fishes, Hunting, and Hawking. As Also A compendious Grammar for the Instruction of the Learner. Het Groot Woorden-boeck, Gestelt in't Engelsch ende Nederduytsch, Met een Appendix van de namen van alderley Beesten, Vogelen, Visschen, Jagerye, ende Valkerye, &c. Als oock, Een korte Engelsche Grammatica
Publication place
Rotterdam
Publisher
Aernovt Leers
Transcription source
EEBO images of vol. 1 (1647)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
- Dutch
- fauna
- fishing
- hawking and hunting
- herbal
- mathematics
- weights and measures
Summary
English-Dutch dictionary (vol. I) with special sections on birds, beasts, colours, fishes, herbs, numbers, stones, trees, and weights.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: Dutch
explanations: Dutch
explanations: Dutch
explanations: Dutch
Extent
2 vols.
Word-group
type: other
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 32997
sample: Abalienate, Vervreemt, verleydt. (vol. I, a1r)
Abberdaen, Habberdine. (vol. II, a1r)
number: 32997
sample: Abalienate, Vervreemt, verleydt. (vol. I, a1r)
Abberdaen, Habberdine. (vol. II, a1r)
Alston
XIII.86, 90
Wing
(1) H 1648 (title from vol. 1: Eng.-Dut.); (2) H 1653 (vol. 2: Dutch-Eng.)
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.
2579.
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Other editions
1648: Wing H1649 (vol. I; Alston XIII.87);
1658: Wing H1653a (vol. II; Alston XIII.91);
1660: Wing H1650 (vol. I; Alston XIII.88);
1675: Wing H1651 (vol. I; Alston XIII.89)
1658: Wing H1653a (vol. II; Alston XIII.91);
1660: Wing H1650 (vol. I; Alston XIII.88);
1675: Wing H1651 (vol. I; Alston XIII.89)
Criticisms
Alston, R. C. "English Grammars in Dutch and Dutch Grammars in English: A Supplement." English Studies 45 (1964): 389-94.
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Sources
- Osselton, N. E. "The Sources of the First Dutch and English Dictionary." Modern Language Review 64 (1969): 355-62. view record
