Bartholomaeus Anglicus, Batman upon Bartholome, His Book De Proprietatibus Rerum (1582)

Full Text
EEBO/TCP
Date
1582
Author
Bartholomaeus Anglicus Note: 30/09/2005
Editor
Lexicon title
¶ A necessarie Catalogue, of the most hardest olde English words, how they maye be truly vnderstood after our vsuall speaking, as well in all other old Copies, as in this booke: next vnto euery such word, is the knowen English
Book title
Batman vppon Bartholome, His Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum, Newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such Additions as are requisite, vnto euery seuerall Booke: Taken foorth of the most approued Authors, the like heretofore not translated in English
Publication place
London
Publisher
Thomas East
Transcription source
Anglistica and Americana facsimile
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
Middle English
Language
headwords: Middle English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
[pi][pi]6
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Angells inwit, heauenly knowledge.
Schafer
1582 B
STC
1538
Facsimiles
Schäfer, Jürgen. "Introduction." Batman vppon Bartholome: His Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum 1582. Hildesheim: n.p., 1976. 5-20. view record
Anglicus, Bartholomaeus. Batman uppon Bartholome: his booke De proprietatibus rerum, 1582. Anglistica and Americana 161. Hildesheim and New York: Georg Olms, 1976. view record
Criticisms
Larkey, Sanford V. "Scientific Glossaries in Sixteenth Century English Books." Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine 5 (1937): 105-14. view record
McNair, John R. "An Early `Hard Word' List: Stephen Batman's `A Note of Saxon Wordes'." Neophilologus 68 (1984): 317-19. view record
Sources
  • Berkhout, Carl T. "Stephen Batman and the Expositio Vocabulorum." Neophilologus 69 (1985): 476-78. view record