Henry Spelman, Archaismus Graphicus (1606)

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Date

1606

Author

Henry Spelman Note: 13/10/2005

Book title

Archaismus Graphicus

Transcription source

British Library Stowe MS 1059

Text type

manuscript

Genre

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies

Subject area

Summary

Mainly a glossary on abbreviations in Latin mss

Language

headwords: Latin
explanations: English
explanations: English

Extent

93 leaves

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword

Catalog

National Library of Scotland. Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired since 1925. Vol. II. Edinburgh: HMSO, 1966. 116. MS 2774: early 18th-century copy of Sir Henry Spelman's "Archaismus Graphicus" view record

Other editions

Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS 238 digital images at parker-library@corpus.cam.ac.uk; Bodleian Library Rawlinson MS B.462; Phillipps MS 4261 (Phillipps 1968: 66); Phillipps MS 7102 (Phillipps 1968). Also National Library of Scotland MS 2774 (early 18th-century copy).

Criticisms

Powicke, Sir F. M. "Sir Henry Spelman and the Concilia." Proceedings of the British Academy 16 (1926): 33 ff.. view record