Gentian Hervet, De Immensa Dei Misericordia (1526?)
Date
1526?
Author
Lexicographer
Lexicon title
A good table for them that shal rede this sermon and vnderstande nat Latin and frenche termes / vsed in englisshe
Book title
De immensa dei misericordia. A sermon of the excedynge great mercy of god / made by ye moste famous doctour maister Eras. Rot. Translated out of Latine in to Englisshe / at the request of the moste honorable and vertuous lady / the lady Margaret Countese of Salisbury
Publication place
London
Publisher
Thomas Berthelet
Transcription source
EEBO (Bodleian Library)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- Bible
- hard words
Summary
STC 10474 appears to be a revised version of this glossary. For the term "prince" in "Confisketh," it uses "king". The glossary is not included in the 1533 and 1547 editions (Gee, 151).
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 16
number: 16
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 152
sample: Composicion a treaty.
number: 152
sample: Composicion a treaty.
Schafer
1526 E
STC
10474.5
Other editions
1526: STC 10474;
1533: STC 10475 (no glossary included; Gee 151);
1547: STC 10476 (no glossary included; Gee 151)
Criticisms
Gee, John Archer. "Hervet's English Translation, with its Appended Glossary, of Erasmus' De Immensa Dei Misericordia." Philological Quarterly 15.2 (1936 April): 136-52.
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Devereux, James. "An English Glossary by Gentian Hervet." Moreana 4.14 (1962): 5-10. view record
Devereux, James. "An English Glossary by Gentian Hervet." Moreana 4.14 (1962): 5-10. view record
