John Withals, A Short Dictionary for Young Beginners (1556)
Full Text
EEBO/TCP
Date
1556
Lexicographer
John Withals Note: 15/10/2005
Book title
A short Dictionarie For Yonge Beginners. Gathered of good authors, specially of Columell, Grapald, and Plini
Publication place
London
Printer
John Kingston
Publisher
John Waley and Abraham Vele
Transcription source
EEBO (Henry E. Huntington Library)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
Latin
Summary
A core vocabulary for English in a topical arrangement
Language
headwords: English
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin
Word-group
type: topical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: The euenyng, vespera, ræ, vel tempus vespertinum. Serum subslantinam, est extre ma pars diei. Item serum, significat {whey}: vt infra, vbi de lacearijs habetur.
sample: The euenyng, vespera, ræ, vel tempus vespertinum. Serum subslantinam, est extre ma pars diei. Item serum, significat {whey}: vt infra, vbi de lacearijs habetur.
Alston
XV.734
STC
25875
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. 2785-89, 2795-97, 2799, 2801-02, 2807 . view record
Other editions
1553: STC 25874 (no EEBO images available; Alston XV.733);
1562: STC 25876 (Alston XV.735);
1566: STC 25877 (Alston XV.736);
1568: STC 25878 (augmented by L. Evans; Alston XV.737);
1574: STC 25874 (Alston XV.738);
1579: STC 25878.5 (Alston XV.739);
1581: STC 25880 (Alston XV.740);
1584: STC 25880.5 (augmented by A. Fleming; Alston XV.741);
1586: STC 25881 (Alston XV.742);
1594: STC 25882 (Alston XV.743);
1599: STC 25883 (Alston XV.744);
1602: STC 25884 (augmented by William Clerk; Alston XV.745);
1608: STC 25885 (Alston XV.746);
1616: STC 25886 (enlarged; Alston XV.747);
1634: STC 25887 (Alston XV.748)
1562: STC 25876 (Alston XV.735);
1566: STC 25877 (Alston XV.736);
1568: STC 25878 (augmented by L. Evans; Alston XV.737);
1574: STC 25874 (Alston XV.738);
1579: STC 25878.5 (Alston XV.739);
1581: STC 25880 (Alston XV.740);
1584: STC 25880.5 (augmented by A. Fleming; Alston XV.741);
1586: STC 25881 (Alston XV.742);
1594: STC 25882 (Alston XV.743);
1599: STC 25883 (Alston XV.744);
1602: STC 25884 (augmented by William Clerk; Alston XV.745);
1608: STC 25885 (Alston XV.746);
1616: STC 25886 (enlarged; Alston XV.747);
1634: STC 25887 (Alston XV.748)
Criticisms
D., J., and others. "Early English-Latin and Latin-English Dictionaries." 6th series. Notes & Queries 4 (1881): 141-42, 161-63. view record
Hüllen, Werner. "Women and their World in Withals' Dictionary of 1553." Histoire, épisté, langage: revue publiée par la Société d'Histoire et d'Epistémologie des Sciences du Langage. Lille: n.p., 1994 [1995]. 191-216. view record
Hüllen, Werner. English Dictionaries 800-1700: The Topical Tradition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. 168-201. 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
Starnes, D. T. "An Elizabethan Dictionarie for Yonge Beginners." University of Texas Studies in English 29 (1950): 51-76. view record
Starnes, De Witt Talmage. Renaissance Dictionaries, English-Latin and Latin-English. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1954. 167-83. view record
Stein, Gabriele. The English Dictionary before Cawdrey. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1985. 194-204 . view record
Hüllen, Werner. "Women and their World in Withals' Dictionary of 1553." Histoire, épisté, langage: revue publiée par la Société d'Histoire et d'Epistémologie des Sciences du Langage. Lille: n.p., 1994 [1995]. 191-216. view record
Hüllen, Werner. English Dictionaries 800-1700: The Topical Tradition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. 168-201. 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
Starnes, D. T. "An Elizabethan Dictionarie for Yonge Beginners." University of Texas Studies in English 29 (1950): 51-76. view record
Starnes, De Witt Talmage. Renaissance Dictionaries, English-Latin and Latin-English. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1954. 167-83. view record
Stein, Gabriele. The English Dictionary before Cawdrey. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1985. 194-204 . view record
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