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Jean d'Outremeuse, The Book Named John Mandeville, Knight (1499)

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Date

1499

Author

Jean d'Outremeuse

Book title

Here begynneth a lytell treatyse or booke named Iohan Maundeuyll knyght born in Englonde in the towne of saynt Albone and speketh of the wayes of the holy londe towarde Iherusalem / and of marueyles of Ynde and of other dyuerse countrees

Publication place

Westminster

Printer

Wynkyn de Worde

Transcription source

EEBO/TCP and EEBO

Text type

printed book

Genre

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies

Subject area

Arabic
spelling
travel

Summary

Chapter 46, "Of the byrthe of Machomet," includes an explanation of the alphabet of the Arabic language.

Language

headwords: English
explanations: Arabic
explanations: Arabic

Word-group

type: undifferentiated

Word-entry

type: gloss

STC

17247

Ian Lancashire, Editor.
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