Anthony Huish, Priscianus Nascens, or a Key to the Grammar School (1660)

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Date
1660
Author
Book title
Priscianus Nascens, Or, A Key to the Grammar School. Serving much to the Exposition of the Grammatical Rules of Lilly, and the more easie and certain Translating of English into Latine
Publication place
London
Publisher
William Garret
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
  • grammar
  • Latin
Summary
(a) The English Index. In Which when you have found the Latine word you seek after, go with it to the foregoing Latine Index, where you shall finde directions in what Declention, kind of Adjectives rank of Verbs or participles you shall find it declined. (b) An Index exactly declining and shewing the Conjugation, Declension &c. Of each word of the Handmaid to the Syntax and the Priscians Rules
Language
headwords: English, Latin
explanations: Latin, English
explanations: Latin, English
Extent
(a) Vol. 1: h5v-i3v. (b) Vol. 2: h6r-k6r
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: (a) an Age, seculum. (h5v); (b) "Absens, entis. A. F. absent. (
Alston
XVI.247
Wing
H3358b
Other editions
1663: Wing H3358c (Alston XVI.248);
1664: Wing H3358d (Alston XVI.249);
1669: Wing H3358a (Alston XVI.250);
1670: Wing H3357 (Alston XVI.251)
Criticisms
Facchinetti, Roberta. "Bilingual Lexicography in 17th-century England: The Case of Anthony Huish." Linguistica e filologia 3 (1996): 209-29. view record
Facchinetti, Roberta. "Anthony Huish: A 17th-century English Grammarian." Advances in English Historical Linguistics (1996). Eds. Jacek Fisiak and Marcin Krygier. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1998. 53-62. view record