Giles Duwes, An Introductory for to Learn to Read, to Pronounce, and to Speak French Truly (1533?)
Date
1533?
Author
Book title
An introductorie for to lerne to rede, to pronounce, and to speake Frenche trewly, compyled for the ryghte hygh, excellent, & moste vertuous lady, the lady Mary of England, doughter to our moste gracious souerayne lorde kyng Henry the eyghte [from 1540 edn.]
Publication place
London
Publisher
Thomas Godfray
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
French
Summary
"The names of membres longyng to mannes body aswell inwarde as outwarde", etc. (b3r-d3r) and many other lists of interlineated English equivalents for French expressions throughout the book, some of which are long, like the verbs word-list. An illustrative description of the term "atmos" appears on the last page.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: French
explanations: French
explanations: French
explanations: French
Word-group
type: topical
Word-entry
type: gloss
sample: (a) The ball of the eye La pupille (b3v)
sample: (a) The ball of the eye La pupille (b3v)
Alston
XII.8
STC
7377
Other editions
1540?: STC 7378 (Alston XII.9);
1546?: STC 7379-80 (Alston XII.10-11)
1546?: STC 7379-80 (Alston XII.10-11)
Facsimiles
Du Wes, Giles. An introductory for to learn to read, to pronounce, and to speak French, [1532?]
. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 327. Menston: Scolar Press, 1972.
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Modern editions
Palsgrave, John. L'éclaircissement de la langue française; suivi de la grammaire giles du Guez. Ed. François Génin. Collection de documents inédits sur l'histoire de France. 2. série: Histoire des lettres et des sciences. Paris: Impr. nationale, 1852.
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Criticisms
Schmitt, Christian. "La grammaire de Giles du Wes. Étude lexicale." Revue de linguistique romane 43 (1979): 1-45.
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