John Brinsley, Ludus Literarius (1612)
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Date
1612
Author
John Brinsley Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
Ludus Literarius: or, The grammar schoole; Shewing how to Proceede from the first entrance into learning, to the highest perfection required in the Grammar Schooles, with ease, certainty and delight both to Masters and Schollars; onely according to our common Grammar, and ordinary Classicall Authours
Publication place
London
Publisher
Thomas Man
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP transcript
Text type
printed book
Genre
Grammars
Subject area
- education
- spelling
Summary
Syllables that are hardest for children to spell (pp. 16-17), and numbers (p. 26), are discussed in Chapter 3, "How the Schollar may be taught to reade English speedily, to fit him the sooner and better for the Grammar schoole." Chapter 6, "How to make children perfect in the Accedence," has some explanations of grammatical terms. Brinsley discusses the advantages of dictionaries (p. 72).
Language
headwords: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Q. What is a Nowne?
A. A Nowne is the name of a thing.
Q. Of what thing?
A. Of such a thing as may bee seene, selt, heard, or vnderstood.
Q. Giue me some examples of some such things?
A. A hand, a house, goodnesse. (p. 56)
sample: Q. What is a Nowne?
A. A Nowne is the name of a thing.
Q. Of what thing?
A. Of such a thing as may bee seene, selt, heard, or vnderstood.
Q. Giue me some examples of some such things?
A. A hand, a house, goodnesse. (p. 56)
Alston
X.29-34
STC
3768
Catalog
Kennedy, Arthur Garfield. A Bibliography on Writings on the English Language from the Beginning of Printing to the End of 1922. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1927. 5705. view record
Other editions
1627: STC 3369-3370b.2
Facsimiles
Brinsley, John. Ludus Literarius, 1612. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 62. Menston: Scolar Press, 1968. view record
Modern editions
Brinsley, John. Ludus literarius, etc.. Ed. E. T. Campagnac. Liverpool and London: Liverpool University Press and Constable, 1917. view record
Criticisms
Salmon, Vivian. "John Brinsley: 17th-century Pioneer in Applied Linguistics." The Study of Language in 17th-century England. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1979. 33-46. view record
Salmon, Vivian. "John Brinsley and His Friends: Scholarship in the 17th century Leicestershire." Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society 51 (1975-76): 1-14. view record
Salmon, Vivian. "John Brinsley and His Friends: Scholarship in the 17th century Leicestershire." Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society 51 (1975-76): 1-14. view record
