William Wood, New Englands Prospect (1634)

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Date
1634
Author
William Wood Note: 15/10/2005
Lexicon title
Nomenclator
Book title
New Englands Prospect. A true, lively and experimentall description of that part of America, commonly called New England: discovering the state of that Countrie, both as it stands to our new-come English Planters; and to the old Native Inhabitants
Publication place
London
Printer
Thomas Cotes
Publisher
John Bellamie
Transcription source
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum facsimile (Bodleian Library)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
  • Algonkian
  • travel
Summary
Glossary of the Massachusett (Wampanoag, Algonkian) language
Language
headwords: Massachuset
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
o2r-o4r
Word-group
type: other
number: 29
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 384
sample: Hub hub hub come come come
Alston
XIV.536
STC
25957
Other editions
1635: STC 25958;
1639: STC 25959
Facsimiles
Wood, William. New Englands prospect . The English experience, no. 68. Amsterdam and New York: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and Da Capo Press, 1968. view record
Modern editions
Wood, William. Wood's New-England's Prospect. Boston: n.p., 1865. view record
Criticisms
Young, Alexander. Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay from 1623 to 1636: now first collected from original records and contemporaneous manuscripts, and illustrated with notes. Boston: A. Little, 1846. view record
Aubin, George F. "Toward the Linguistic History of an Algonquian Dialect: Observations on the Wood Vocabulary." Papers of the Ninth Algonquian Conference. Ed. William Cowan. Ottawa: Carleton University, 1978. 127-37. view record