Edmund Bohun, A Geographical Dictionary (1693)
Full Text
EEBO/TCP
Date
1693
Lexicographer
Lexicon title
A GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, In which are Represented The Present and Antient NAMES of all the Countries, Provinces,
Remarkable Cities, Towns, Ports, Seas, Streights, Fountains,
Rivers, Mountains, Vniversities, &c. of the Whole WORLD
Book title
A GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY Representing the Present and Antient NAMES and STATES OF ALL THE Countries, Kingdoms, Provinces, Remarkable Cities, Vniversities, Ports, Towns, Mountains, Seas, Streights, Fountains, and Rivers of the whole WORLD; THEIR Distances, Longitudes, and Latitudes, WITH A short HISTORICAL ACCOUNT of the same, and a general INDEX of the Antient and Latin Names.
Publication place
London
Publisher
Charles Brome
Text type
printed book
Genre
Proper and place name indexes
Subject area
- Latin
- place name
- weights and measures
Summary
John Augustine Barnard compiled this place name dictionary from Edmund Bohun's Geographical Dictionary (1688), Lewis Morery's Grand Dictionaire Historique (Utrecht, 1692), and other sources.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
other languages: ancient Latin
explanations: English
This is not an etymological lexicon: headwords appear to be treated as acceptable forms in English. Only in the appendix are ancient Latin headwords, and vernacular and English forms in the explanation, marked explicitly by language origin.
explanations: English
other languages: ancient Latin
explanations: English
This is not an etymological lexicon: headwords appear to be treated as acceptable forms in English. Only in the appendix are ancient Latin headwords, and vernacular and English forms in the explanation, marked explicitly by language origin.
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 11681
sample: Lanceston or Launceston, the County Town of Cornwall, in the Hundred of East, upon the banks of the little River Kensey, not far from its fall into the Tamer: Well inhabited, marketed, and traded. It returns to the House of Commons two Burgesses.
number: 11681
sample: Lanceston or Launceston, the County Town of Cornwall, in the Hundred of East, upon the banks of the little River Kensey, not far from its fall into the Tamer: Well inhabited, marketed, and traded. It returns to the House of Commons two Burgesses.
Wing
B3454
Catalog
James, M. R. "Mediaeval Manuscripts." Bibliotheca Pepysiana. Part I-II. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1923. 59. view record
