William Camden, Of the diversity of names of this Island (1604)
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Date
29 June 16040
Author
Editor
Book title
A collection of curious discourses, written by eminent antiquaries upon several heads in our English antiquities
Publication place
Oxford
Transcription source
Hathitext
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
place name
Summary
An Essay delivered before the Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
149-53
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: gloss
sample: In which sense the Author of the book de mundo ad Alexandrum, which is supposed to be Aristotele's, calleth it Albion, and our Welch men call it Inis Wen, the white Island, albeit some think the name Albion to be deduced from Albion a Giant, and other from the high situation.
sample: In which sense the Author of the book de mundo ad Alexandrum, which is supposed to be Aristotele's, calleth it Albion, and our Welch men call it Inis Wen, the white Island, albeit some think the name Albion to be deduced from Albion a Giant, and other from the high situation.
ESTC
T112502
