William Lisle, Diverse Ancient Monuments in the Saxon Tongue Written Seven Hundred Years Ago (1638)

Date

1638

Author

William Lisle Note: 11/10/2005

Book title

Divers ancient monuments in the Saxon tongue written seven hundred yeares agoe. Shewing that both in the Old and New Testament, the Lords prayer, and the Creede, were then used in the mother tongue: and also, what opinion was then held of the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ. Published by William L'isle of Wilburgham, Esquire to the Kings body. Whereunto is added out of the homilies and epistles of AElfricus a second edition of a testimony of antiquity touching the sacrament, and a sermon on the Paschall Lambe, and of the sacramentall body and blood of Christ, used to be spoken to the people at Easter, before they should receive the Communion

Publication place

London

Printer

Edward Griffin and John Haviland

Publisher

Francis Eglesfield

Text type

printed book

Genre

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies

Subject area

Old English

Summary

"To the Readers," a discussion of twenty points, including "Of the Brittish tongue" and "Against the Fustian English by some vsed in translating"; and parallel Anglo-Saxon and English texts

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword

STC

160.5