James Rosier, Purchas his Pilgrims (1625)

Date

1625

Author

James Rosier Note: 13/10/2005

Editor

Samuel Purchas Note: 12/10/2005

Lexicon title

CHAP. XIII. Extracts of a Virginian Voyage made An. 1605. by Captaine GEORGE WAYMOVTH, in the Arch-angell. Set forth by the Right Honorable HENRY Earle of South-hampton, and the Lord THOMAS ARVNDEL, written by IAMES ROSIER

Words which I learned of the Sauages, in their Language

Book title

PVRCHAS HIS PILGRIMES IN FIVE BOOKES. The Fourth Part [of four vols.]

Publication place

London

Printer

William Stanley

Publisher

Henrie Fetherstone

Transcription source

EEBO (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign copy)

Text type

printed book

Genre

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies

Subject area

• Algonkian
• travel

Summary

ca. 100 words collected by Rosier and mentioned, though without specifics, in his A True Relation of the Most Prosperous Voyage Made this Present Yeere 1605 (London: Bishop, 1605)

Language

headwords: English
explanations: Algonquin
explanations: Algonquin

Extent

1667

Word-group

type: alphabetical
number: 1

Word-entry

type: headword
number: 82
sample: A fish with hornes, Manedo.

STC

20509

Other editions

Rosier mentioned these terms, though without specifics, in his A True Relation of the Most Prosperous Voyage Made this Present Yeere 1605 (London: Bishop, 1605)

Modern editions

Purchas, Samuel. Hakluytus Potshumus or, Purchas His Pilgrimes Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others. 1906. Cambridge Library Collection vol. 18. Digital edition. n.p.: n.p., 2017. 359. view record

Criticisms

Quinn, David B., and Alison M. Quinn. The English New England Voyages, 1602-1608. 2 vols. London: Hakluyt Society, 1983. 310-11, 481-93 . view record
Salmon, Vivian. "Thomas Harriot (1560-1621) and the English Origins of Algonkian Linguistics." Historiographia Linguistica 19.1 (1992): 25-56. 41. view record