The collected papers of Henry Bradley / with a memoir by Robert Bridges.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bradley, Henry, 1845-1923.

Contributor:

Bridges, Robert, 1844-1930.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English philology.

Names, Geographical--England.

Names, Geographical.

England.

English language--Etymology--Names.

English language.

Physical Description:

x, 296 pages : frontispiece (portrait) map, facsimiles ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : The Clarendon press, 1928.

Contents:

A memoir, by R. Bridges.

Place-names: Ptolemy's Geography of the British Isles. English place names. Some prehistoric river-names. Dialect in English place-names. Etocetum or Letocetum? The etymology of Lichfield. Was Lindum a colonia? The ancient name of Manchester. The etymology of Arundel.

Lexicography: A new English dictionary, Part I. Some etymologies.

Language: Slang. On the English pronunciation of Latin. The Anglo-Cymric score. Spelling. Spoken and written English.

Literary problems and studies: Beowulf. The first riddle of the Exeter book. The song of the nine magic herbs. Helland.

Notes:

Orm. 'Wynnere and Wastoure.' A new theory as to Huchown. John But. Who was John But? Thomas Usk: The 'Testament of love.' 'Henry Lonelich the skinner.'--Conjectural emendations: The Hebrew text of Psalm LXXXV.9. On the Arabic of the 'Secretum secretorum.' The Greek inscription at Brough-under-Stanmore. Trisanton and Trisantona. Remarks on the Corpus glossary. Notes on Walter Map's 'De nugis curallium.' Some emendations in Old English texts. Two corruptions in Old English mss. 'Richard the Redeless' III 105-106. Textual notes on 'The enterlude of Johan the Evangelist.' Some textual puzzles in Greene's works.--Bibliography (p. [259]-279)--Index.--List of subscribers.

OCLC:

4393542