Francis Junius, Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae (after 1659)

Date

1659after

Lexicographer

Francis Junius Note: 11/10/2005 Nationality is French/German Languages include Gothic

Book title

Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae

Transcription source

Bodleian Library MSS. Junius 4-5

Text type

manuscript

Genre

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies

Subject area

etymology

Extent

Vol. I: 246 pages. Vol. II: 219 pages.

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword

Catalog

<ul> <li>Bodleian Summary Catalogue 5116, 5117 <li>Kennedy 8385 (1671 edition) </ul>

Other editions

1671: Wing S3947 (ed. Stephen Skinner; see LEME 385)

Modern editions

Printed with additions by Edward Lye (Oxford, 1743)

Criticisms

Kerling, Johan. "Franciscus Junius, 17th-Century Lexicography and Middle English." LEXeter '83 Proceedings: Papers from the International Conference on Lexicography at Exeter, 9-12 September 1983. Ed. Reinhard R. K. Hartmann. Lexicographica Series Maior 1. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1984. 92-100. view record
Romburgh, Sophie van. "Why Francis Junius (1591-1677) Became an Anglo-Saxonist: Or, The Study of Old English for the Elevation of the Dutch." Studies in Medievalism 11 (2001): 5-36. view record
Dekker, Kees. "'That Most Elaborate One of Fr. Junius': An Investigation of Francis Junius's Manuscript Old English Dictionary." The Recovery of Old English: Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Ed. Timothy Graham. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, 2000. 301-43. view record
Berryman, Martha. "Franciscus Junius's "Etymologicum Anglicanum": Scholarship and Historical Linguistics in the Seventeenth Century." Dissertation Abstracts International, A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 57.4 (October 1996): 1593-A. view record

Sources

• Mayou, Martha B. "The Sources of the Etymologicum Anglicanum (1743) by Franciscus Junius." Dictionaries 20 (1999): 90-150. view record