Francis Gouldman, A Copious Dictionary (1664)
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Date
1664
Lexicographer
Francis Gouldman Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
A Copious Dictionary In Three Parts I. The English before the Latin, Enriched with about Ten thousand Words more then any former Dictionary contains, II. The Latin before the English, With correct and plentiful Etymological Derivations, Philological Observations, and Phraseological Explications, III. The Proper Names of Persons, Places, And other things necessary to the understanding of Historians and Poets, To which are adjoined A Table of Authors Names at large, which in this Book are made use of, or mentioned: and also some lesser Tractates. The whole being a Comprisal of Thomasius and Rider's Foundations, Holland's and Holyoak's Superstructure and Improvements: Together with Amendments and Enlargements very considerable for number and nature, promoted and carried on by a diligent search into, and perusal of several other Dictionaries, and many Authors ancient and modern
Publication place
London
Publisher
John Field
Transcription source
for Fisher Library
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
Latin
Summary
(a) Vocabularium Anglo-Latinum;
(b) Dictionarium Latino-Anglicanum;
(c) Dictionarium Propria locorum & personarum vocabula complectens.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: Latin, English
explanations: Latin, English
explanations: Latin, English
explanations: Latin, English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
Alston
XVI.264
Wing
G 1443
Other editions
1669: Wing G1444 (Alston XVI.265);
1674: Wing G1445 (Alston XVI.266);
1678: Wing G1446 (Alston XVI.267)
1674: Wing G1445 (Alston XVI.266);
1678: Wing G1446 (Alston XVI.267)
Criticisms
Starnes, De Witt Talmage. Renaissance Dictionaries, English-Latin and Latin-English. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1954. 278-90. view record
Mayor, J. E. B. "Francis Gouldman the Lexicographer." 2nd series. Notes and Queries 3.57 (1857): 86. view record
Mayor, J. E. B. "Francis Gouldman the Lexicographer." 2nd series. Notes and Queries 3.57 (1857): 86. view record