John Skene, De Verborum Significatione: the Exposition of the Terms and Difficile Words Contained in the Four Books of Regiam Maiestatem (1597)

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Date

1597

Author

John Skene Note: 30/09/2005

Lexicon title

De verborum significatione. The Exposition of the Termes and Difficill Wordes, contained in the foure buikes of Regiam Majestatem, and vthers, etc.

Book title

The Lawes and Actes of Parliament, maid be King Iames the First, and his successours Kinges of Scotland: visied, collected and extracted furth of the Register, etc.

Publication place

Edinburgh

Printer

Robert Walde-Graue

Transcription source

See STC reel no. 396:04 (images 376-444)

Text type

printed book

Genre

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

Subject area

Summary

"De verborum significatione" appears, separately collated, within STC 21877.5. It offers paragraph-length English entries from "ACtilia, Armour" to "Zemsel, of ane Castel".

Language

headwords: Latin
explanations: English
other languages: French
explanations: English

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: Avvncvlvs, properly is the mother-brother, bot sumtime conforme to the French maner of speach, it is taken for the father-brother, in Latin patruus ...

Alston

XVIII.II.32

STC

21877.5

Other editions

1599: STC 21877.5 (Alston XVIII.II.33)
1611: STC 21892 (Alston XVIII.II.33a)
1641: Wing C 7681 (Harvard Law School Library; Alston XVIII.II.34)
1647: Wing S 1264a; Alston XVIII.II.34a
1681: Wing C 7683; Alston XVIII.II.35

Criticisms

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
Cairns, John W., T. David Fergus, and Hector L. Hector L.. "Legal Humanism in Renaissance Scotland." Journal of Legal History 11.1 (1990 May): 40-69. view record