Hēgemōn eis tas glōssas = id est, Ductor in linguas = The guide into tongues : cum illarum harmonia & etymologijs, originationibus, rationibus, [et] deriuationibus in omnibus his vndecim linguis, viz : 1. Anglica, 2. Cambro-Britanica, 3. Belgica, 4. Germanica, 5. Gallica, 6. Italica, 7. Hispanica, 8. Lusitanica, seu Portugallica, 9. Latina, 10. Graeca, 11. Hebrea, [et]c. ... / opera, studio, industria, labore, [et] sumptibus Iohannis Minshaei in lucem editum [et] impressum ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Minsheu, John.

Contributor:

Browne, John, active 1612-1628, bookseller.

Stansby, William, active 1597-1638, printer.

Eliot's Court Press, printer.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

English language--Dictionaries--Early works to 1700.

English language.

English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Dictionaries.

English language--Dictionaries--Polyglot.

Spanish language--Dictionaries--Polyglot.

Spanish language.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Penn Provenance:

Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 (bookplate) (honoree) (Furness copy)

Furness, Horace Howard, Jr. (donor) (Furness copy)

Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor) (Furness copy)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 543 pages, 1 unnumbered page; 188 unnumbered pages ; 40 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Ductor in linguas

Guide into tongues

Place of Publication:

Londini : Apud Ioannem Browne ..., anno 1617.

Notes:

Main title printed in Greek characters on t.p.

The words "1. Anglica. ... 5. Gallica." and "7. Hispanica. ... 11. Hebrea, [et]c." are bracketed together on title page.

Imprint transposed: date appears as part of statement of responsibility.

"Printed by William Stansby and Eliot's Court Press"--ESTC.

Signatures: pi² [superscript pi]A⁶ A-2Y⁶ 2Z², ²pi² ²A-P⁶ ²Q².

"Vocabularium Hispanicolatinum et Anglicum copiosissimum ... A most copious Spanish dictionarie, with Latine and English (and sometime other languages) ..." (formerly STC 17949) has separate signatures and special title page with imprint "Cum gratia & priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis, & vendibiles extant Londini apud Ioannem Browne biliopolam in vico vocato little Brittaine. And are to be sold at Iohn Brownes shoppe a bookebinder in little Brittaine in London". In some copies "apud Iohn Browne ..." is left blank and is, sometimes, filled in in MS. Cf. ESTC.

Text printed primarily in double columns.

Title within woodcut border; woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces.

Printed marginalia.

Identified as Early English books, 1475-1640; 1109:6, 1248:8 on UMI microfilm.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries RBC copy imperfect: p. [1]-[2] (half-title) wanting.

Penn Libraries Furness copy imperfect: second work ("Vocabularium Hispanicolatinum et Anglicum copiosissimum") wanting.

Penn Libraries Furness copy has 1 ms. leaf with bookseller's notes and printed shelf-mark laid in.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 17944

ESTC S121927

Contains:

Minsheu, John. Vocabularium Hispanicolatinum et Anglicum copiosissimum.

Vocabularium Hispanicolatinum et Anglicum copiosissimum.

OCLC:

6439129