Anonymous, Clavis (ca. 1685 - ca. 1700)

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Date

1685ca. 1700ca.

Author

Anonymous

Lexicon title

Clavis

Transcription source

Folger Shakespeare Library MS V.a.308

Text type

manuscript

Genre

Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions

Subject area

dialects (in English)

Summary

A 436-word glossary of Lancashire dialect terms found in "A Lancashire Tale," a poem of 110 lines (described by Adam Fox, Oral and Literate Culture in England 1500-1700 [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000]: 71)

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword