Peter Ker, Rudimenta Grammatices in Gratiam Juventutis Anglicae Conscripta (1686)

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Date
1686
Author
P. K. (alternate name for Peter Ker )
Book title
Rudimenta Grammatices In Gratiam Juventutis Anglicæ Conscripta: Or, The Rudiments Of Grammar. Written for the benefit of the English Youth, in a more plain and easy method than hath been published heretofore. To which is added a short Vocabulary, containing several Forms of speaking, very profitable and useful for Children to learn the Latine Tongue. As also a short Poem, very necessary to teach Children good breeding and Civility, especially at Table. With the Sayings of the seven Wise men of Greece. Concluding with the Lords Prayer, the Creed, and ten Commandments in Latine. With Morning and Evening Prayers, Graces before, and after Meat; very useful both for the spiritual and temporal good and Education of Children
Publication place
London
Printer
F. C.
Publisher
Thomas Sawbridge
Text type
printed book
Genre
Grammars
Subject area
  • grammar
  • Latin
Summary
Includes an Latin-English phrasal lexicon, titled "Formulæ loquendi" (pp. 124-36)
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: M. What is a Word? B. A word is a sound sent from the mouth of a living Creature, with intention of declaring something; and is commonly called Index animi, the Messenger of the Mind, and the Revealer of Secrets; as evax rejoice, heu alace. (p. 4)
Cur non attulisti vocabula in scholam? Why have you not brought your Vocables to the School? (p. 125)
Alston
XVI.505
Wing
K16