The Manipulus Vocabulorum 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
- ^ 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
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- 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).