Cave Beck, The Universal Character by which all the Nations in the World may Understand one another's Conceptions (1657)

Date

1657

Author

Cave Beck Note: 30/09/2005

Book title

The Universal Character, By which all the Nations in the World may understand one anothers Conceptions, Reading out of one Common Writing in their own Mother Tongues. An Invention Of General Use, The Practise whereof may be Attained in two Hours space, Observing the Grammatical Directions. Which Character is so contrived, that it may be Spoken as well as Written

Publication place

London

Printer

Thomas Maxey

Publisher

William Weekley

Text type

printed book

Genre

General English Dictionaries and Glossaries

Subject area

grammar

Summary

Alphabetical lexicon of 3,996 numbered keywords

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: A Kalender, v. Almanack
the keel of a ship r 2458
keene q 49

Wing

B1647

Criticisms

Salmon, Vivian. "Cave Beck: A Seventeenth-century Ipswich Schoolmaster and his `Universal Character'." The Study of Language in 17th-century England. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1979. 176-90. view record
Salmon, Vivian. The Study of Language in 17th-century England. Amsterdam Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 40. 2nd edn. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1979, 1989. 176-90. Cave Beck: A Seventeenth-century Ipswich Schoolmaster and his `Universal Character' view record