Geoffrey Chaucer, The Works of our Ancient and Learned English Poet, Geoffrey Chaucer (1598)

Full Text
EEBO/TCP
Date
1598
Author
Editor
Thomas Speght Note: 14/10/2005
Lexicon title
The old and obscure words in Chaucer, explaned
Book title
The Workes of our Antient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chavcer, newly Printed. In this Impression you shall find these Additions: 1 His Portraiture and Progenie shewed. 2 His Life collected. 3 Arguments to euery Booke gathered. 4 Old and obscure words explaned. 5 Authors by him cited, declared. 6 Difficulties opened. 7 Two Bookes of his, neuer before Printed
Publication place
London
Printer
George Bishop
Publisher
Adam Islip
Transcription source
LEME
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
  • Middle English
  • poetry
  • proper name
Summary
Contents include introductory matter, Chaucer's old words, Chaucer's French (translated), Chaucer's Authors, and Annotations and Corrections (the General Prologue, and the Canterbury Tales). The glossaries are on last 12 leaves (its lemmas are in italic, the rest in roman; the proper-name glossary has names in italic, the rest in roman; in the annotations, the lemma is in black letter, the rest in roman). The Greek quotations proved too small to be confidently read.
Language
headwords: Middle English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
Ttt1r-Uuu6r
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 26
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 2256
sample: ABawed, abashed, daunted.
Alston
III.128 [1598]
Schafer
1602 S
STC
5079
Other editions
post-1545: an MS copy of this glossary exists in the British Library copy of Thynne's 1545 edition (Alston III.i.28 note);
1598: STC 5078-79 (Alston III.i.29-30);
ca. 1602-10: Joseph Holland's edited version (LEME 789);
1602: STC 5080-81 (Alston III.i.31-32);
1687: Wing C3736 (Alston III.i.33)
Criticisms
Schäfer, Jürgen. "Chaucer in Shakespeare's Dictionaries: The Beginning." The Chaucer Review 17.2 (1982 Fall): 182-92. view record
Wright, H. G. "Thomas Speght as a Lexicographer and Annotator of Chaucer's Works." English Studies 40 (1959): 194-208. view record