William Camden, William Camden's Welsh Vocabularies (ca 1575 - ca 1616)

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Date

1575ca 1616ca

Lexicographer

William Camden Note: 30/09/2005

Transcription source

British Library Cotton MS Julius F.X

Text type

manuscript

Genre

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies

Subject area

Summary

(a) Vocabularies in Welsh-English (127r-31v; 20 word-entries), Welsh-Latin (127r; 28 word-entries), Latin-English (127v; 20 word-entries), English-Welsh (129r-30r; 82 word-entries), and Welsh-English (130r-31v; 320 word-entries); and (b) "Of thorigine of the Scottes &c Pictes we haue not muche more authentike memorye, in our language then Galfride Monumetens. halfe sette downe in his booke de rebus gestis Britannorum. As I remember we call In our bookes" (160r-61v)

Language

headwords: Welsh-English
explanations: English-Welsh
other languages: Latin
explanations: English-Welsh

Extent

197 fols.

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: 1 Derwen, an oke. (127r)
20 Genistha. broome (127v)
Earth. Land farryne tallywe (129r)
Adall A buyldinge (130r)
The Pictes: Phictiaid. (160r)

Criticisms

Herendeen, Wyman H. "William Camden: Historian, Herald and Antiquary." Studies in Philology 85.2 (1988): 192-210. view record
Levy, F. J. "The Making of Camden's Britannia." Bibl. d'Humanisme et Renaissance 26 (1964): 70-97. view record