Archaic glossary II. G-N
Reference code
WAY/01/02
Title
Archaic glossary II. G-N
Date
c 1840 -1865
Level of description
item
Extent and format
1 volume
octavo
leather-bound
octavo
leather-bound
Scope and content
This is Volume 2 (G-N) of 4 volumes titled Archaic Glossary, which appear to be Way's handwritten notes on Wynken de Worde's 1515 Vulgaria Stanbrigi, an English/Latin vocabulary by John Stanbridge and the Vulgaria of Robert Whittinton (see Early English Text Society (Series) 187); and Wynken de Worde's sixteenth century editions of Galfridus Garmmaticus/Geoffrey the Grammarian's (1440) Promptorium parvulorum (the first English-Latin dictionary); in preparation for Way's edition of Promptorium parvulorum sive clericorum published by the Camden Society in 3 volumes 1843-1865 (see Works of the Camden Society 25, 54 & 89). Volume 2 contains leaves 126-223 with some insertion of additional loose notes.
Creator
Way, Albert (1805-1874), antiquary
Language
Latin and English