John Skene, De Verborum Significatione: the Exposition of the Terms and Difficile Words Contained in the Four Books of Regiam Maiestatem (1597)
Date
1597
Author
John
Skene
Note: 30/09/2005
Lexicon title
De verborum significatione. The Exposition of the Termes and Difficill Wordes, contained in the foure buikes of Regiam Majestatem, and vthers, etc.
Book title
The Lawes and Actes of Parliament, maid be King Iames the First, and his successours Kinges of Scotland: visied, collected and extracted furth of the Register, etc.
Publication place
Edinburgh
Printer
Robert Walde-Graue
Transcription source
See STC reel no. 396:04 (images 376-444)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- French
- hard words
- Latin
- law
Summary
"De verborum significatione" appears, separately collated, within STC 21877.5. It offers paragraph-length English entries from "ACtilia, Armour" to "Zemsel, of ane Castel".
Language
headwords: Latin
explanations: English
other languages: French
explanations: English
explanations: English
other languages: French
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Avvncvlvs, properly is the mother-brother, bot sumtime conforme to the French maner of speach, it is taken for the father-brother, in Latin patruus ...
sample: Avvncvlvs, properly is the mother-brother, bot sumtime conforme to the French maner of speach, it is taken for the father-brother, in Latin patruus ...
Alston
XVIII.II.32
STC
21877.5
Other editions
1599: STC 21877.5 (Alston XVIII.II.33)
1611: STC 21892 (Alston XVIII.II.33a)
1641: Wing C 7681 (Harvard Law School Library; Alston XVIII.II.34)
1647: Wing S 1264a; Alston XVIII.II.34a
1681: Wing C 7683; Alston XVIII.II.35
1611: STC 21892 (Alston XVIII.II.33a)
1641: Wing C 7681 (Harvard Law School Library; Alston XVIII.II.34)
1647: Wing S 1264a; Alston XVIII.II.34a
1681: Wing C 7683; Alston XVIII.II.35
Criticisms
Osselton, N. E. "English Specialized Lexicography in the Late Middle Ages and in the Renaissance." Fachsprachen. Languages for Special Purposes. Eds. L. Hoffman and others. 2 vols. Vol. II. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1998. 2458-65.
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Cairns, John W., T. David Fergus, and Hector L. Hector L.. "Legal Humanism in Renaissance Scotland." Journal of Legal History 11.1 (1990 May): 40-69. view record
Cairns, John W., T. David Fergus, and Hector L. Hector L.. "Legal Humanism in Renaissance Scotland." Journal of Legal History 11.1 (1990 May): 40-69. view record
