doniano, An. Dom.
m. dcc. i.
Impensis
Sam. Smith, &
Benj. Walford ad insigne Principis, in cœmeterio D. Pauli. [1701.]
PE381 .L5 B4
8vo. 96 leaves, unnumbered, engraved vignette of the Sheldonian Theatre on the title-page, engraved frontispiece showing a
library with scholars as in no. 4860 above, text in double-columns; the last leaf has Voces Poeticæ cum interpretamentis,
è Grammaticia D. Georgii Hickesii, S. T. P.
Lowndes I, 155.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 928.
Jefferson probably bought this copy while in Paris; it is entered in his undated manuscript catalogue with the English price
5/6
.
Somner and Benson are among those listed by Jefferson in his essay on Anglo-Saxon who deserve to be ever remembered with gratitude.
He quotes from this work to illustrate a point in the third part, Numbers, under section IV, Grammar:
D
r. Hickes supposes the A-S. to have a dual number also, not going thro’ the whole vocabulary of nouns and verbs, as in Greek,
but confined to two particular pronouns, i. e.
wit,
and
yit,
which he translates we two, and ye two. but Benson renders
wit
by
nos,
and does not give
yit
at all. and is it worth while to embarras grammar with an extra distinction for two or three, or half a dozen words? and
why may not
wit
we two, and
yit
, ye two, be considered plural, as well as we three, or we four? as duo, ambo, with the Latins? we may surely say then that
neither the A-S. nor English have a dual number.
[Benson’s
wit is on Z
2 recto of this work.]
William Somner, 1598-1669, Anglo-Saxon scholar, first published his
Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum in 1659. This is the
first edition edited by Thomas Benson B. A. of Queen’s College. The imprimatur and the epistle to the reader are dated July 15,
1701.
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130
Lye’s Dictionarium
Saxonico-et
Gothico-
Latinum. ab Owen Manning.
2. to. in 1.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 166, no. 151, as above.
LYE,
Edward.
Dictionarium
Saxonico et
Gothico-
Latinum. Auctore Edvardo Lye, A. M. Rectore de Yardley-Hastings in Agro Northantoniensi. Accedunt Fragmenta Versionis Ulphilanæ, necnon Opuscula quædam
Anglo-Saxonica. Edidit, Nonnullis Vocabulis auxit, plurimis Exemplis illustravit, et Grammaticam utriusque Linguæ præmisit, Owen Manning, S. T. B. Canon. Loncoln.
[
sic
--
Ed.
] Vicarius de Godelming, et Rector de Peperharow in Agro Surreiensi; necnon Reg. Societ. et Reg. Societ. Antiqu. Lond. Socius.
Tom. I. [-Tom. II.]
Londini: Excudebat
Edm. Allen: Prostat autem venale apud
Benj. White, in Vico vulgo dicto Fleet-Street; apud
J. Woodyer, et
T. et J. Merril, Bibliopolas
Cantabrigienses; et
J. et J. Fletcher, et
D. Prince, Bibliopolas
Oxonienses.
m.dcc. lxxii
. [1772.]
PE275 .L85
First Edition. Folio. 2 vol. in 1, 236 leaves, the last a blank, and 368 leaves, unnumbered, half-title to each volume. List of
subscribers on one leaf at the beginning.
Lowndes III, 1420.
Graesse IV, 311.
Entered by Jefferson without price in his undated manuscript catalogue.
Edward Lye, 1694-1767, began work on this dictionary about 1637,
[
sic
--
Ed.
] but died before more than thirty sheets had been printed. The work was posthumously published.
Owen Manning, 1721-1801, chiefly known for his
History of Surrey
, completed and published Lye’s dictionary.
The list of subscribers contains many names of interest to this catalogue. These include Daines Barrington, Oliver Goldsmith,
Thomas Hollis, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Percy, Jacob Tonson and a number of others.
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