Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Speght's Chaucer Glossary (1602)
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Date
1602
Author
Editor
Thomas Speght Note: 14/10/2005
Lexicon title
The old and obscure words in Chaucer explaned
Book title
The workes of our ancient and learned English poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed
Edition
2nd
Publication place
London
Publisher
Adam Islip
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
Middle English
Summary
"Proper names, archaic words and obsolete spellings" (Sch&äfer 1602 S)
Language
headwords: Middle English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 2706
number: 2706
Schafer
1602 S
STC
5080
Other editions
1598: see LEME 268
1687: Wing C3736. A fragmentary Chaucer glossary (its title is taken from the running title) appears after the conclusion of The Grand Visiers (1677; Wing C3728) and is from a collected works. The fragment opens at A and ends with "Mercury crude, l. Quick-silver ...". The signatures of the The Grand Visiers and of the Chaucer fragment are unrelated. The spelling and the formatting of the fragment, however, resemble those of the 1687 edition by Thomas Speght.
1687: Wing C3736. A fragmentary Chaucer glossary (its title is taken from the running title) appears after the conclusion of The Grand Visiers (1677; Wing C3728) and is from a collected works. The fragment opens at A and ends with "Mercury crude, l. Quick-silver ...". The signatures of the The Grand Visiers and of the Chaucer fragment are unrelated. The spelling and the formatting of the fragment, however, resemble those of the 1687 edition by Thomas Speght.
