Joseph Holland, A Chaucer Glossary (ca 1602 - ca 1610)

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Date

1602ca 1610ca

Author

Joseph Holland

Transcription source

Cambridge University Library Gg.4.27, fols. 30-32v

Text type

manuscript

Genre

Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions

Subject area

Middle English

Summary

Edited version of Speght's Chaucer glossary, omitting 75% but adding much

Language

headwords: English and Middle English

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword

Criticisms

Caldwell, Robert A. "Joseph Holand, Collector and Antiquaries." Modern Philology (1943 Feb): 40. view record
Caldwell, Robert. "An Elizabethan Chaucer Glossary." Modern Language Notes 58 (1943 May): 374-75. view record
Manly, John M., and Edith Rickert. The Text of the Canterbury Tales. Chicago: n.p., 1940. view record