Richard Sherrey, A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes (1550)

Date

13 December 1550

Author

Richard Sherry(alternate name for Richard Sherrey ) Note: 13/10/2005

Book title

A treatise of Schemes & Tropes very profytable for the better vnderstanding of good authors, gathered out of the best Grammarians & Oratours by Rychard Sherry Londoner

Edition

first

Publication place

London

Publisher

John Day

Transcription source

Scholars' Facsimiles (1961; Bodleian Library); EEBO/TCP has another transcript

Text type

printed book

Genre

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies

Subject area

• poetry
• rhetoric

Summary

A work about rhetoric for the education of young people. Sherrey explained a Latinate vocabulary of technical terms in English.

Language

headwords: English / Latin
explanations: English
explanations: English

Word-group

type: alphabetical
number: 13

Word-entry

type: headword
number: 150

Alston

VI.8

Schafer

1550 T

STC

22428

Facsimiles

Sherry, Richard. A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes: 1550 by Richard Sherry. And his Translation of The Education of Children by Desiderius Erasmus. Gainesville: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1961. view record

Criticisms

Engelhardt, G. J. "The Relation of Sherry's Treatise of Schemes and Tropes to Wilson's Arte of Rhetorique." Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 62:1 (1947 March): 76-82. view record
Hüllen, Werner. English Dictionaries 800-1700: The Topical Tradition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. 149-54. view record
Stein, Gabriele. The English Dictionary before Cawdrey. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1985. 157-64. view record

Sources

• Erasmus, Desiderius. De civilitate morum puerilium per D. Erasmum libellus, ab autore recognitus et novis scholiis illustratus, per G. Longolium. Coloniæ: J. Gymnicus, 1530. view record