Elisha Coles, Syncrisis or the most Natural and Easy Method of Learning Latin (1675)
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Date
1675
Lexicographer
Elisha Coles Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
Syncrisis, Or, The Most Natural and Easie Method Of Learning Latin: By Comparing it with English Together with the Holy History of Scripture-War. Or, The Sacred Art Militarie. Illustrated In Fourteen Copper-Plates: With the Rude Translation opposite for the Exercise of those that begin to make Latin
Publication place
London
Printer
H.L.
Publisher
Thomas Dram and Thomas Lacey
Text type
printed book
Genre
Grammars
Subject area
grammar
Summary
Some explanations of grammatical terminology; and parallel English and Latin excerpts from the Bible
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: Etymologie treats of the several sorts of Words and their Accident; Syntaxis treats of the due joyning and putting them together for discourse. *a3r)
sample: Etymologie treats of the several sorts of Words and their Accident; Syntaxis treats of the due joyning and putting them together for discourse. *a3r)
Alston
XVI.329
Wing
C5081
Other editions
1677: Wing C5082 (Alston XVI.330)
Facsimiles
Scolar Press (1971) [1677 edition]
Criticisms
Gabrielson, A., "Elisha Coles's `Syncrisis' (1675) as a Source of Information on 17th Century English," Englische Studien 70 (1935-36): 149-52
Mander, Gerald. "The Identity of Elisha Coles." 3rd series. The Library 37.10 (1919 January): 34-44. view record Gabrielson, Arvid. "Elisha Coles's `Syncrisis' (1675) as a Source of Information on 17th Century English." Englische Studien 70 (1935-36): 149-52. view record
Carlton, W. J. "The Identity of Elisha Coles." Notes and Queries 165 (1933 July 8): 11. view record
Bensly, Edward. "The Identity of Elisha Coles: Oxford, `the Eye of England'." Notes and Queries 165 (1933 July 22): 49. view record
Considine, John. "Elisha Coles in Context." Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 33 (2012): 42-57. view record
