Anonymous, Notes of Definitions (ca. 1637 - ca. 1660)

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Date
1637ca. 1660ca.
Lexicographer
Lexicon title
Notes of definitions
Transcription source
Considine (2013) transcribes the glossary in these two disjunct folio leaves from a manuscript sold as lot 303 in Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers sale of Historical Documents, Autographs and Ephemera on January 19, 2010. See http://www.ukauctioneers.com/auction_houses/184/sales/3?page=11
Text type
manuscript
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Summary
A glossary of moral philosophy written by a Scot.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Incipit
{rhetoriq}ue Is that facultie, by which we wnderstand what will serwe our turne, concerning any subiect to winne beleefe in the hearer.
Pages type
folio
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 68
sample: Neglect Is to esteeme litle or nothing.
Modern editions
Considine, John. "Notes for a Dictionary from Seventeenth-Century Scotland." Language and History 56 (May 2013): 33-43. view record