William Lambarde, Dictionarium Angliae Topographicum et Historicum (ca. 1577)
Date
1577ca.
Lexicographer
William
Lambarde
Note: 11/10/2005
Book title
Dictionarium Angliæ Topographicum & Historicum
Text type
manuscript
Genre
Proper and place name indexes
Subject area
- grammar
- Latin
- Old English
- place name
Summary
Alphabetical entries on British place-names, from Albion to Wyrisdale, that identify their location, sometimes the etymology of the name, and historical information. The work, in Lambarde's unique holograph manuscript (since lost), was not published until 1730.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Incipit
Albion & Angolia, Angliterra <i>nonnullis</i>
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: REDRIFE, Rethrahythe, Saxon. Sinus nauticus, Latine, Lel. Lelande is of thopinion that this Place standinge upon the South Banke of the Thamise over-against the Tower or London was first but a Lodginge for Maryners; and this he gathereth of the Name, without any violent Wrestlinge, as me thinketh; for Rethra in the old Inglishe is as muche as Rower, or Maryner, in token wherof the Stere is yeat called a Rother, and Hythe signifieth a Haven, or Harborowe. Theare is nothinge in the Place beside worthy Note, save only the old Stone-house, in the which Kinge Hen. IV. is sayd to have layen whiles he was cured of a Leprosie. (p. 306)
sample: REDRIFE, Rethrahythe, Saxon. Sinus nauticus, Latine, Lel. Lelande is of thopinion that this Place standinge upon the South Banke of the Thamise over-against the Tower or London was first but a Lodginge for Maryners; and this he gathereth of the Name, without any violent Wrestlinge, as me thinketh; for Rethra in the old Inglishe is as muche as Rower, or Maryner, in token wherof the Stere is yeat called a Rother, and Hythe signifieth a Haven, or Harborowe. Theare is nothinge in the Place beside worthy Note, save only the old Stone-house, in the which Kinge Hen. IV. is sayd to have layen whiles he was cured of a Leprosie. (p. 306)
Modern editions
Lambarde, William. Dictionarium Angliæ Topographicum & Historicum: An Alphabetical Description of the Chief Places in England and Wales; With an Account of The most Memorable Events which have distinguish'd them . London: Fletcher Gyles, 1730.
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Criticisms
Brackmann, Rebecca. The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England: Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde, and the Study of Old English. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2012.
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