Early Modern English Dictionaries Database
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/english/emed/
Description
The Early Modern English Dictionaries Database comprises a fully searchable database of 16 sixteenth and seventeenth century dictionaries, including:
- six bilingual dictionaries: John Palsgrave (1530; English-French), William Thomas (1550; Italian-English), Thomas Thomas (1587; Latin-English), John Florio (1598; Italian-English), John Minsheu (1599; Spanish-English), and Randle Cotgrave (1611; French-English).
- five English hard-word dictionaries: Edmund Coote (1596), Robert Cawdrey (1604, based on the transcription by Raymond Siemens; and 1617), John Bullokar (1616), and Henry Cockeram (1623).
- the first full English-only dictionary, by Thomas Blount (1656).
- three specialized lexicons: Bartholomew Traheron's translation of Vigon (1543), William Turner on herbal names (1548), and John Garfield on scientific terms in J. Renou's Dispensatory (1657).
- the first full English word-list by Richard Mulcaster
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Date visited for this service:
21st September 2006
Main resource type:
Database
Hosted by:
University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts and Science
Language:
English
This page last edited:
03 September 2003