Geoffrey the Grammarian, Promptorium Parvulorum (1499)

Full Text
EEBO/TCP
Date
5 May 1499
Lexicographer
Geoffrey the Grammarian Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
Promptorium Paruulorum
Printer
Richard Pynson
Publisher
Fredrici Egmondt and Petre Post Pascha
Transcription source
English Linguistics facsimile
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
Latin
Summary
The title means "A storeroom for young scholars."

Abbreviations are normally expanded in the LEME transcription, but contractions for grammatical terms and sources remain as they are. The most important are: coniugacionis (co., con., coni., coniu., conga.), declinationis (d., de., dec., decl., decli., declina., declinati.), feminini (f., fe., femini.), masculini (m., ma., mas., masc., mascu., masculi.), neutrum (n., ne., neu., neut.), generis (g., ge., gen., gene.), prime (p., pri.), secunde (s., se., sec., scde), tercie (t., te., ter.), quarte (q., qrte., quar), omnia (o.), aduerbia (aduerb.), and deponens (depon.). There are also contractions for sources such as the Catholicon of Johannes de Janua (Ca., Cat., Cath., Catho.), Huguitio of Pisa (Hug.), William Brito of Wales (Brit., Brito), Campus Florum, attributed to Thomas Walleys (C.F., Cam. flo.), the Dictionarius of Johannes de Garlandia (dicc., etc.), and Robert Kilwardby (k.).

Language
headwords: English
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin
Incipit
Incipit prologus in libellu<i>m</i> qui dicitur promptorius puerorum
Extent
226
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 10502
sample: Agrotenyd wyth mete or drynke. Ingurgita tus ta .tum.
Alston
XV.134
STC
20434
Catalog
Duff, E. Gordon. "Early Printed Books to 1558." Bibliotheca Pepysiana. Part II. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1914. 352. view record
Vancil, David E., ed. Incunable Dictionaries: A Checklist and Publishing History. Terre Haute, Indiana: Friends of the Cunningham Memorial Library, 1994. 286-92. view record
King's College Cambridge. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts other than Oriental in the Library of King's College, Cambridge. Ed. Montague Rhodes James. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1895. no. 8. (15th cent.; used by Way, pp. 13-14) view record
Other editions
British Library Additional MS 22,556;
British Library Additional MS 37,789, fols. 1-83;
British Library Sloane MS 1044, fol. 366;
British Library Harley MS 221, fols. 1-205 [1440];
British Library Harley 2274, no. 21, fols. 63-77 (fragment);
Phillipps MS 8306 (Heber Library, no. 1360): "Promptorium Parvulorum, secundum vulgarem modem loquendi Orientalium Anglorum ... `Brooke owyt yis Boke' 15thc." (Phillipps 1968: 127);
Winchester Cathedral Chapter Library;
King's College, Cambridge;
St. John's College, Cambridge;
Emmanuel College, Cambridge (fragment in binding);
1508 August 12: STC 20435 (Alston XV.135);
1511 January 17: STC 20436 (Alston XV.136);
1512 May 26: STC 20437 (Alston XV.137);
1516 September 5: STC 20438 (Alston XV.138);
1528 May 13: STC 20439 (Alston XV.XV.139)
Facsimiles
Anonymous. Promptorium Parvulorum. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 108. Menston: Scolar Press, 1968. view record
Modern editions
Anonymous. The Promptorium Parvulorum. The First English Dictionary. c. 1440 A.D.. Ed. Anthony Lawson Mayhew. Early English Text Society Extra Series 102. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Henry Trowde, Oxford University Press, 1908. view record
Starnes, De Witt Talmage. Renaissance Dictionaries, English-Latin and Latin-English. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1954. 3-18. view record
Way, Albert, ed. Promptorium Parvulorum sive Clericorum. Camden Society Nos. 25, 44, 89. London: n.p., 1843-1865. view record
Criticisms
Voigts, Linda, and Frank Stubbings. "Promptorium parvulorum: Manuscript Fragments at Emmanuel College and their Relation to Pynson's Editio princeps." Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 9.4 (1989): 358-71. view record
Stein, Gabriele. The English Dictionary before Cawdrey. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1985. 91-106. view record
Burnley, J. D. "Geoffrey the Grammarian (fl. 1440)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Eds. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. view record