Peter Levens, Manipulus Vocabulorum (1570)
Full Text
EEBO/TCP
Date
1570
Lexicographer
Peter Levins (alternate name for Peter Levens ) Note: 11/10/2005
Book title
Manipulus Vocabulorvm. A Dictionarie of English and Latine wordes, set forthe in suche order, as none heretofore hath ben, the Englishe going before the Latine, necessary not onely for Scholers that want varietie of words, but also for such as vse to write in English Meetre. Gathered and set forth by P. Leuins. Anno 1570. For the better vnderstanding of the order of this present Dictionarie, read ouer the Preface to the Reader, and the Epistle Dedicatorie, and thou shalt finde it easie and plaine, and further thereof thou shalt gather great profite
Publication place
London
Printer
Henrie Bynneman
Publisher
Iohn Waley
Transcription source
Scolar Press facsimile (British Library); EEBO
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
- Latin
- rhymes
Summary
Dictionary of rhyming English words (with accentuation), each of which is glossed by its Latin equivalent
Language
headwords: English
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: a snake anguis, is, hic
a stake palus, i.
sample: a snake anguis, is, hic
a stake palus, i.
Alston
XV.751
STC
15532
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. 2790. view record
Facsimiles
Levins, Peter. Manipulus Vocabulorum, 1570. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 195. Menston: Scolar Press, 1969. view record
Modern editions
Levins, Peter. Manipulus Vocabulorum: A Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language, by Peter Levins. (1570). Ed. H. B. Wheatley. Early English Text Society Original Series 27. London: Trübner, 1867. view record
Starnes, De Witt Talmage. Renaissance Dictionaries, English-Latin and Latin-English. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1954. 353-55. view record
Starnes, De Witt Talmage. Renaissance Dictionaries, English-Latin and Latin-English. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1954. 353-55. view record
Criticisms
Andersson, Nils G. "Manipulus Vocabulorum." Notes & Queries 205 (1960 May): 190. view record
Facchinetti, Roberta. "Peter Levins' Lexicographic Approach." Linguistica e filologia 2 (1996): 33-48. view record
Gotti, Maurizio. "The `Hard Words' of Levins' Dictionary." Language History and Linguistic Modelling. Eds. R. Hickey and S. Ruppel. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997. 483-501. view record
Stein, Gabriele. The English Dictionary before Cawdrey. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1985. view record
Stein, Gabriele. "Peter Levins: a Sixteenth-century English Word-formationalist." Neuere Forschungen zur Wortbildung und Historiographie der Linguistik: Festgabe fur Herbert E. Brekle zum 50. Geburtstag. Eds. Brigitte Asbach-Schniker and Johannes Roggenhofer. TüBL 284. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1987. 287-302. view record
Weisker, E. Ueber zweck und einrichtung, reime und akzentangaben, worthschatz und quelle des ersten fr&uulm;hne reimlexikons. Halle: Ehrhardt Karras, Güttingen, 1902. view record
Facchinetti, Roberta. "Peter Levins' Lexicographic Approach." Linguistica e filologia 2 (1996): 33-48. view record
Gotti, Maurizio. "The `Hard Words' of Levins' Dictionary." Language History and Linguistic Modelling. Eds. R. Hickey and S. Ruppel. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997. 483-501. view record
Stein, Gabriele. The English Dictionary before Cawdrey. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1985. view record
Stein, Gabriele. "Peter Levins: a Sixteenth-century English Word-formationalist." Neuere Forschungen zur Wortbildung und Historiographie der Linguistik: Festgabe fur Herbert E. Brekle zum 50. Geburtstag. Eds. Brigitte Asbach-Schniker and Johannes Roggenhofer. TüBL 284. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1987. 287-302. view record
Weisker, E. Ueber zweck und einrichtung, reime und akzentangaben, worthschatz und quelle des ersten fr&uulm;hne reimlexikons. Halle: Ehrhardt Karras, Güttingen, 1902. view record
