Mark Ridley, A Dictionary of the English before the Vulgar Russe Tongue (ca 1594 - ca 1599)
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Date
1594ca 1599ca
Lexicographer
Transcription source
(a) Bodleian Laud MS misc. 47a, 56 leaves;
(b) Bodleian MS Laud 47b, 45 leaves
Text type
manuscript
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
Slavic
Summary
(a) "A Dictionarie of the vulgar Russe tongue" and lists of names for birds, fishes, plants, and diseases;
(b) "A Dictionarie of the Englishe before the vulger Russe tongue"; and
(c) a list of the names of birds and plants
Language
headwords: Russian
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
(a) 1r-5 (brief Russian grammar);
(b) 6r-43r (dictionary);
(c) 43r-52v (81 bird-names, 59 fish-names, 296 plant-names, 58 disease-names)
Pages type
fol
Word-group
type: topical
Word-entry
type: headword
Catalog
Bodleian Library. A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. 7 vols. in 8. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895-1953. 3449. view record
Bodleian Library, and H. O. Coxe. Bodleian Library Quarto Catalogues II: Laudian Manuscripts. 1858-85. Ed. R. W. Hunt. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1973. view record
Bodleian Library, and H. O. Coxe. Bodleian Library Quarto Catalogues II: Laudian Manuscripts. 1858-85. Ed. R. W. Hunt. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1973. view record
Other editions
The draft version of Laud Misc. 47a appears in Bodleian MS Selden Supra 61: an incomplete Russian-English vocabulary "Vikrantiti"-"Paverkhu".
Modern editions
Ridley (attributed), Mark. A Dictionarie of the Vulgar Russe Tongue Attributed to Mark Ridley. Ed. Gerald Stone. Bausteine zur Slavischen Philologie und Kilturgeschichte, Reihe B: Editionen. Herausgegeben von Karl Gutschmidt, Hans-Bernd Harder, and Hans Rother. Neue Folge Band 8. Köln, Weimar, Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 1996. view record
Criticisms
Gibbs, Denis. "Dr Mark Ridley's Terra Australis." Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London 22.2 (1988 April): 108. view record
Konnova, V.F. "[Russian Medical Terminology in Mark Ridley's Dictionary]." Russian Linguistics 24.1 (2000 March): 31-61. view record
Scheurweghs, G., and E. Vorlat. "Problems of the History of English Grammar." English Studies 60 (1959): 135-36. view record
Simmons, J. S. G., and B. O. Unbegaun Unbegaun. "Slavonic Manuscript Vocabularies in the Bodleian Library." Oxford Slavonic Papers 2 (1951): 119-27. view record
Stone, G. "Mark Ridley (1560-1624): An Elizabethan Slavist." Journal of Russian Studies 53 (1987): 3-14. view record
Unbegaun, B. O. "The Language of Muscovite Russia in Oxford Vocabularies." Journal of Russian Studies 10 (1962): 46-59. view record
Unbegaun, B. O. "The Language of Muscovite Russia in Oxford Vocabularies." Selected Papers on Russian and Slavonic Philology. 1962. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. 237-54. view record
Konnova, V.F. "[Russian Medical Terminology in Mark Ridley's Dictionary]." Russian Linguistics 24.1 (2000 March): 31-61. view record
Scheurweghs, G., and E. Vorlat. "Problems of the History of English Grammar." English Studies 60 (1959): 135-36. view record
Simmons, J. S. G., and B. O. Unbegaun Unbegaun. "Slavonic Manuscript Vocabularies in the Bodleian Library." Oxford Slavonic Papers 2 (1951): 119-27. view record
Stone, G. "Mark Ridley (1560-1624): An Elizabethan Slavist." Journal of Russian Studies 53 (1987): 3-14. view record
Unbegaun, B. O. "The Language of Muscovite Russia in Oxford Vocabularies." Journal of Russian Studies 10 (1962): 46-59. view record
Unbegaun, B. O. "The Language of Muscovite Russia in Oxford Vocabularies." Selected Papers on Russian and Slavonic Philology. 1962. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. 237-54. view record
Sources
- Rider, John. Bibliotheca Scholastica, 1589. English linguistics 1500-1800, no. 217. Menston: Scolar Press, 1970. view record
