James Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae (1650)
Date
1650
Author
James
Howell
Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
Epistolae Ho-Elianae. Familiar letters domestic and forren
Edition
second
Publication place
London
Printer
W. H.
Publisher
Humphrey Moseley
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP transcript
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
antiquities
Summary
See letters 19 (on Breton and Welsh; pp. 39-40), 27 (about Davies' Welsh grammar; pp. 31-32), 56 (on languages; pp. 77-93), and sig. 5M3 (spelling);
(i) To the Intelligent Reader, and
(ii) LVI. To the R. H. the E. R. (West. 9 Aug. 1630), on the English language;
(a) "Divers Letters of the languages up and down the Earth";
(b) "Of St. Malos, and the Province of Britany, the vicinity of their Language with the Welsh:;
(c) "A Poem upon the British language".
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Since I came to this Province, I was curious to converse with some of the lower Bretons who speak no other Language but our Welsh, for their radicall words are no other, but 'tis no wonder for they were a Colony of Welsh at first, as the name of this Province doth imply, as also the Latin name Armorica, which though it passe for Latin, yet it is but pure Welsh, and signifies a Countrey bordring up the Sea, as that arch Heretick was call'd Pelagius, a Pelago, his name being Morgan. I was a little curious to peruse the Annals of this Province, and during the time that it was a Kingdom, ther wer four Kings of the name Hoell, whereof one was call'd Hoell the Great. (pp. 34-35)
sample: Since I came to this Province, I was curious to converse with some of the lower Bretons who speak no other Language but our Welsh, for their radicall words are no other, but 'tis no wonder for they were a Colony of Welsh at first, as the name of this Province doth imply, as also the Latin name Armorica, which though it passe for Latin, yet it is but pure Welsh, and signifies a Countrey bordring up the Sea, as that arch Heretick was call'd Pelagius, a Pelago, his name being Morgan. I was a little curious to peruse the Annals of this Province, and during the time that it was a Kingdom, ther wer four Kings of the name Hoell, whereof one was call'd Hoell the Great. (pp. 34-35)
Alston
III.143
Wing
H 3072
Other editions
1645: Wing H3071 (Alston III.i.142);
1655: Wing H3073, -73a (Alston III.i.144-45);
1673: Wing H3074 (Alston III.i.146);
1678: Wing H3075 (Alston III.i.147);
1688: Wing H3076 (Alston III.i.148)
1655: Wing H3073, -73a (Alston III.i.144-45);
1673: Wing H3074 (Alston III.i.146);
1678: Wing H3075 (Alston III.i.147);
1688: Wing H3076 (Alston III.i.148)
Modern editions
Howell, James. Epistolae Ho-Elianae: The Familiar Letters of James Howell. Ed. Agnes Repplier. 4 vols. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1907.
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Criticisms
Mensel, E. H. "James Howell as a Practical Linguist." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 25.4 (1926): 531-38.
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