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Glossographia, or, A dictionary, interpreting all such hard words, whether Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, Teutonick, Belgick, British, or Saxon, as are now used in our refined English tongue : also the terms of divinity, law, physick, mathematicks, heraldry, anatomy, war, musick, architecture, and of several other arts and sciences explicated : with etymologies, definitions, and historical observations on the same, very useful for all such as desire to understand what they read / by T.B. of the Inner-Temple, Barrester.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Dictionaries--Early works to 1700.
- English language.
- English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Dictionaries.
- English language--Foreign words and phrases--Dictionaries.
- English language--Foreign words and phrases.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Penn Provenance:
- Elias, Archibald C. (donor)
- Drake, W. (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 688 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Glossographia
- Dictionary, interpreting all such hard words, whether Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, Teutonick, Belgick, British, or Saxon, as are now used in our refined English tongue
- Fingerprint:
- c.n- ifs; r.nd ofan (C) 1656 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by Tho. Newcomb, and are to be sold by Humphrey Moseley ..., 1656.
- Notes:
- "T.B. of the Inner-Temple, Barrester" is Thomas Blount. Cf. ESTC.
- Signatures: A-2U⁸.
- Title within border of double rules; text in double columns within ruled border.
- Woodcut initials and head-pieces.
- Typographical ornaments.
- Errata on last leaf.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries copy has autograph of W. Drake of Helmsford and ms. inscription ("pr. 2s ap: 28 90") on title leaf; a few marginal marks and ink blots in text; pen tests on verso of last leaf.
- Penn Libraries copy has wormhole in tail margin of leaves A5-E1 and 2L7-2R4.
- Cited in:
- ESTC R5788
- OCLC:
- 9056976
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