Robert Commaundre, The Book of Heraldry (ca 1590 - ca 1613)

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Date

1590ca 1613ca

Author

Robert Commaundre

Book title

The Booke of Heraldrye and other thinges togither with the Order of Coronacions

Transcription source

British Library Egerton MS 2642

Text type

manuscript

Genre

Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions

Subject area

Latin

Summary

(a) "The Names of Certen Peeces of great Gonnes and Ordenance vsed by Sea and Land in tyme of warre & The Names of All suche Peeces of Armure As well for Horssemen as ffootemen as bee vsed in tyme of warre"; (b) "Of the severall disorders and degrees amonges oure Idle vagabondes of England & Of the Severall dysseorders & degrees amonges oure Idle vagabondes of England aswell men as women" (a canting glossary)

Language

headwords: English

Extent

418 fols. (a) 150v-51r; (b) 315v-17r

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword