Pietro Martire d' Anghiera, The History of Travel in the West and East Indies (1577)
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Date
1577
Author
Peter Martyr of Angleria (alternate name for Pietro Martire d' Anghiera )
Richard Willes (alternate name for Richard Willis )
Richard Willes (alternate name for Richard Willis )
Translator
Richard Eden Note: 30/09/2005
Lexicon title
To the Reader
Book title
The History of Trauayle in the West and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes. As Moscouia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Aegypte, Ethiopia, Guinea, China in Cathayo, and Giapan: With a discourse of the Northwest passage
Publication place
London
Publisher
Richard Iugge
Transcription source
Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints (John Carter Brown Library). EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- branded words
- travel
Summary
Willes complains that Eden's translation has too many unwisely Englished Latin words and lists them
Extent
sig. §5
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: other
sample: "Many of his Englyshe woordes cannot be excused in my opinion for smellyng to much of the Latine, as Dominators. Fol 5. Ponderouse. Fol. 23. Ditionaries. Fol. 25. Portentouse. Fol. 28. Antiques. Fol. 31. despicable. Eol. 387. Solicitate. Fol. 76. obsequiouse. Fol. 90. homicide. Fol. 390. imbibed. Fol. 395. Destructiue. Fol. 276. Prodigious Fol. 279."
sample: "Many of his Englyshe woordes cannot be excused in my opinion for smellyng to much of the Latine, as Dominators. Fol 5. Ponderouse. Fol. 23. Ditionaries. Fol. 25. Portentouse. Fol. 28. Antiques. Fol. 31. despicable. Eol. 387. Solicitate. Fol. 76. obsequiouse. Fol. 90. homicide. Fol. 390. imbibed. Fol. 395. Destructiue. Fol. 276. Prodigious Fol. 279."
Schafer
1577 W
STC
649
Catalog
Kennedy, Arthur Garfield. A Bibliography on Writings on the English Language from the Beginning of Printing to the End of 1922. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1927. 2504. view record
Other editions
1555: see LEME #82;
1612: STC 650 ("De nouo orbe, or the historie of the west Indies...");
1625: STC 651 ("The historie of the Wes-Indies...");
1628: STC 652 ("The famous historie of the Indies..."; re-issue of 1612)
1612: STC 650 ("De nouo orbe, or the historie of the west Indies...");
1625: STC 651 ("The historie of the Wes-Indies...");
1628: STC 652 ("The famous historie of the Indies..."; re-issue of 1612)
Sources
- Anghiera, Pietro Martire d'. De Orbe Novo: the Eight Decades of Peter Martyr d'Anghera. Trans. Francis Augustus MacNutt. 2 vols. . New York: B. Franklin, 1970. view record
