Richard James, James' Old English-English Dictionary (ca 1600)

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Date

1600ca

Lexicographer

Richard James

Transcription source

Bodleian MS. James 42

Text type

manuscript

Genre

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies

Subject area

Old English
rhymes

Summary

(a) 4r-64r: Saxon-English dictionary, with some English equivalents: incipit "Abrad Exeunt. drewe"; (b) 71v-72v: Saxon-English Glossary: incipit "pyt we/ ponysshment/ he goth"; (c) 73v-75v: "olde woordes: incipit "Accoyed. pluckt downe"; (d) 76r: "Country termes": incipit "Screte"; (e) 76v-85v: rhyming words: incipit "Fragidite"

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword

Catalog

Bodleian Library. A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. 7 vols. in 8. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895-1953. 3879. view record

Criticisms

Hetherington, M. Sue. The Beginnings of Old English Lexicography. Spicewood, Texas: n.p., 1980. 69-71. view record