Manipulus Vocabulorum
The Manipulus Vocabulorum (lit. 'Handful of Words') is an English-to-Latin dictionary that was produced in the 16th century; it is the first English rhyming dictionary.[1][2][3] The Manipulus Vocabulorum was published by Peter Levens in 1570.[4] It was reprinted in parallel editions in 1867 by the Camden Society,[5] the Early English Text Society,[6] and the Philological Society.[7]
References
[edit]- ↑ Starnes, DeWitt T. (1954). Renaissance Dictionaries: English-Latin and Latin-English. Austin: University of Texas Press. pp. 353–355.
- ↑ Stein, Gabriele (1985). The English Dictionary before Cawdrey. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 226–244. ISBN 9783111664873.
- ↑ Henry Benjamin Wheatley's "Preface" to Levens (1867). Manipulus vocabulorum. Camden Society. pp. i–xv.
- ↑ Levens, Peter (1570). Manipulus Vocabulorum: A Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language. London: John Waley.
- ↑ Levens, Peter (1867). Wheatley, Henry Benjamin (ed.). Manipulus vocabulorum. Westminster: The Camden Society.
- ↑ Levens, Peter (1867). Wheatley, Henry Benjamin (ed.). Manipulus vocabulorum. London: Trübner and Co. for the Early English Text Society.
- ↑ Levens (1867). Manipulus vocabulorum. Camden Society. See note immediately preceding "Preface".
External links
[edit]- The Camden Society reprint of the Manipulus vocabulorum (1867) at the Internet Archive.
- The Early English Text Society reprint of the Manipulus vocabulorum (1867) at Hathitrust.
- Manipulus Vocabulorum: a Rhyming Dictionary from the 16th Century at the Public Domain Review.
- Write Like a Thespian With the Manipulus Vocabulorum, a 16th Century Rhyming Dictionary in the Smithsonian Magazine (2014).