James Howell, Lexicon Tetraglotton, An English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary (1659 - 1660)
Date
1659
1660
Lexicographer
James
Howell
Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
Lexicon Tetraglotton, An English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined A large Nomenclature of the proper Terms (in all the four) belonging to several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Diuided into Fiftie two Sections
Publication place
London
Publisher
Cornelius Bee, or Samuel Thomson, or Thomas Leach
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
- French
- Italian
- proverbs
- Spanish
Language
headwords: English
explanations: French, Italian, Spanish
explanations: French, Italian, Spanish
explanations: French, Italian, Spanish
explanations: French, Italian, Spanish
Extent
Part I (1660); Part II (1659)
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: To Roll the eyes up and down; Roder les yeux; Tornare gli occhi; Rodar los ojos (hhhh2r)
sample: To Roll the eyes up and down; Roder les yeux; Tornare gli occhi; Rodar los ojos (hhhh2r)
Alston
II.108
Wing
H 3089
Catalog
Scott, Mary Augusta. Elizabethan Translations from the Italian. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916.
356-58.
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Other editions
1660: Wing H3087-88 (Alston II.109-10);
Criticisms
Kennedy 2720
Hüllen, Werner. English Dictionaries 800-1700: The Topical Tradition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.
204-43.
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Osselton, N. E. "English Specialized Lexicography in the Late Middle Ages and in the Renaissance." Fachsprachen. Languages for Special Purposes. Eds. L. Hoffman and others. 2 vols. Vol. II. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1998. 2458-65. view record
Sánchez Escribano, F. Javier. "Los diccionarios polĂglotos de James Howell: fuentes y aportaciones personales [James Howell's polyglot dictionaries: sources and personal contributions]." Atlantis: journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies 5.1-2 (1983): 5-22. view record
Woolf, D. R. "Conscience, Constancy and Ambition in the Career and Writings of James Howell ." Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-century England . Eds. J. Morrill, P. Slack, and D. Woolf. n.p.: n.p., 1993. 243?-78. view record
