Thomas Cooper, Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britannicae (1584)
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Date
1584
Lexicographer
Thomas Cooper Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
Thesaurus linguae Romanae & Britannicae tam accurate congestus, vt nihil penè in eo desyderari possit, quod vel Latinè complectatur amplissimus Stephani Thesaurus, vel Anglicè, toties aucta Eliotae Bibliotheca: opera & industria Thomae Cooperi Magdalenensis. ... Accessit dictionarium historicum & poëticum propria vocabula virorum, mulierum, sectarum, populorum, vrbium, montium, & caeterorum locorum complectens, & in his iucundissimas & omnium cognitione dignissimas historias.
Edition
fourth
Publication place
London
Printer
Henry Denham
Publisher
Henry Bynneman
Transcription source
Perseus Project, substantially revised
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
- Classical mythology
- Latin
- proper name
Summary
(a) dictionary;
(b) appendix: lexicon of proper names
Language
headwords: Latin
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
STC
5689
Catalog
Kennedy, Arthur Garfield. A Bibliography on Writings on the English Language from the Beginning of Printing to the End of 1922. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1927. 2754, 2757. view record
Other editions
1565 March 16: STC 5686;
1573: STC 5687;
1578: STC 5688. Available at EEBO.
1573: STC 5687;
1578: STC 5688. Available at EEBO.
Facsimiles
Cooper, Thomas. Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britannicae, 1565. English linguistics 1500-1800, no. 200. Menston: Scolar Press, 1969. (1565) view record
Criticisms
Starnes, De W. T. "Thomas Cooper's Thesaurus: A Chapter in Renaissance Lexicography." University of Texas Studies in English 28 (1949): 15-48. view record
Starnes, De Witt Talmage. Renaissance Dictionaries, English-Latin and Latin-English. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1954. 85-110. view record
Stein, Gabriele. The English Dictionary before Cawdrey. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1985. 205-25. view record
Stein, Gabriele. "Illustrations in Dictionaries." International Journal of Lexicography 4.2 (1991): 99-127. view record
Illo, John. "Euripedes, Milton, and Thomas Cooper." Milton Quarterly 26.3 (1992 fall): 81-84. view record
Redhead, J. V. Thomas Cooper and the Elizabethan church. M. Litt. dissertation. n.p.: University of Newcastle, 1975. view record
Starnes, De Witt Talmage. Renaissance Dictionaries, English-Latin and Latin-English. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1954. 85-110. view record
Stein, Gabriele. The English Dictionary before Cawdrey. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1985. 205-25. view record
Stein, Gabriele. "Illustrations in Dictionaries." International Journal of Lexicography 4.2 (1991): 99-127. view record
Illo, John. "Euripedes, Milton, and Thomas Cooper." Milton Quarterly 26.3 (1992 fall): 81-84. view record
Redhead, J. V. Thomas Cooper and the Elizabethan church. M. Litt. dissertation. n.p.: University of Newcastle, 1975. view record
Sources
- Starnes, De W. T. "Thomas Cooper and the Bibliotheca Eliotæ." University of Texas Studies in English 30 (1951): 40-60. view record
- Elyot, Sir Thomas. Dictionary 1538. Menston: Scolar Press, 1970. view record
- Estienne, Robert. Dictionarium Latinogallicum, postrema hac æditione valde locupletatum. 1548. Luteti?: Apud Carolum Stephanum, 1552. view record
