Alexander Barclay, Introductory to Write and to Pronounce French (1521)

Date

22 March 1521

Author

Alexander Barclay Note: 30/09/2005

Lexicon title

Englysshe / and Frenche. Here foloweth a small treatyse of dyuerse frenche wordes after order of the Alphabete. In which treatyse are firste set nounes or names of thynges most vsed in common speche / after them are set adiectyues / than verbes. And last of all aduerbes / and all by order of letter as after shall appere

Book title

Here begynneth the introductory to wryte / and to pronounce Frenche compyled by Alexander Barclay compendiously at the commaundement of the ryght hye excellent and myghty prynce Thomas duke of Northfolke

Publication place

London

Publisher

Robert Coplande

Text type

printed book

Genre

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies

Subject area

French

Summary

Includes a glossary of common French words and their English equivalents, split up by alphabetic letter, the letter groups distributed through the short book: nouns, adjectives, verbs, other parts of speech, and then topics such as numbers, time (week-days, months, seasons, and special feasts), and fish

Language

headwords: French
explanations: English
explanations: English
Ame. a soule

Extent

a6r-c4r

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword

Alston

XII.5

STC

1386

Modern editions

Ellis, Alexander John, ed. On Early English Pronunciation. Early English Text Society Extra Series 2, 7, 14, 23, 56. 5 vols. London: Trübner, 1869-89. III: 803-14. view record

Criticisms

Dobson, Eric J. English Pronunciation 1500-1700. 1957. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. I: 6-7. view record
Schultz, John Richie. "The Life of Alexander Barclay." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 18.3 (1919): 360-68. view record