James Howell, Lexicon Tetraglotton, An English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary (1659 - 1660)

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Date

1659 1660

Lexicographer

James Howell Note: 30/09/2005

Book title

Lexicon Tetraglotton, An English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined A large Nomenclature of the proper Terms (in all the four) belonging to several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Diuided into Fiftie two Sections

Publication place

London

Publisher

Cornelius Bee, or Samuel Thomson, or Thomas Leach

Text type

printed book

Genre

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies

Subject area

Language

headwords: English
explanations: French, Italian, Spanish
explanations: French, Italian, Spanish

Extent

Part I (1660); Part II (1659)

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: To Roll the eyes up and down; Roder les yeux; Tornare gli occhi; Rodar los ojos (hhhh2r)

Alston

II.108

Wing

H 3089

Catalog

Scott, Mary Augusta. Elizabethan Translations from the Italian. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. 356-58. view record

Other editions

1660: Wing H3087-88 (Alston II.109-10);

Criticisms

Hüllen, Werner. English Dictionaries 800-1700: The Topical Tradition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. 204-43. view record
Osselton, N. E. "English Specialized Lexicography in the Late Middle Ages and in the Renaissance." Fachsprachen. Languages for Special Purposes. Eds. L. Hoffman and others. 2 vols. Vol. II. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1998. 2458-65. view record
Sánchez Escribano, F. Javier. "Los diccionarios políglotos de James Howell: fuentes y aportaciones personales [James Howell's polyglot dictionaries: sources and personal contributions]." Atlantis: journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies 5.1-2 (1983): 5-22. view record
Woolf, D. R. "Conscience, Constancy and Ambition in the Career and Writings of James Howell ." Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-century England . Eds. J. Morrill, P. Slack, and D. Woolf. n.p.: n.p., 1993. 243?-78. view record