Anonymous, Notes of Definitions (ca. 1637 - ca. 1660)

Date

1637ca. 1660ca.

Lexicographer

Anonymous

Lexicon title

Notes of definitions

Transcription source

Considine (2013) transcribes the glossary in these two disjunct folio leaves from a manuscript sold as lot 303 in Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers sale of Historical Documents, Autographs and Ephemera on January 19, 2010. See http://www.ukauctioneers.com/auction_houses/184/sales/3?page=11

Text type

manuscript

Genre

Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions

Summary

A glossary of moral philosophy written by a Scot.

Language

headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English

Incipit

{rhetoriq}ue Is that facultie, by which we wnderstand what will serwe our turne, concerning any subiect to winne beleefe in the hearer.

Pages type

folio

Word-group

type: undifferentiated

Word-entry

type: headword
number: 68
sample: Neglect Is to esteeme litle or nothing.

Modern editions

Considine, John. "Notes for a Dictionary from Seventeenth-Century Scotland." Language and History 56 (May 2013): 33-43. view record