Anonymous, Legal Glossary in Bokenham's Mappula Angliae (after 1475)

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Date
1475after
Lexicographer
Transcription source
British Library Harley MS 4011
Text type
manuscript
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
law
Summary
Legal glossary in Osbern Bokenham's Mappula Angliae, of which the MED cites three entries (see below)
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Hame-sokene or hamefare is a-sawte made yn an howse.
Blood-wyte is a-mercyment or amendis for shedynge of bloode.
A tachynge of a theef.
Criticisms
Horstmann, C. "Mappula Angliae, von Osbern Bokenham." Englische Studien 10 (1887): 21-22. view record