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Atîndiad y Lyfryddiaeth y Cymry.
Languages so laid together, but also by their etymologies vnder the
Name know the nature, propertie, condition, effect, matter, forme,
fashion or end of things therevnder contayned, differing from ail other
Dictionaries euer heretofore set forth. Also the exposition of the Termes
of the Lawes of this Land, drawne from their originall the Saxon and Norman
tongues, with the description ofthe Magistracies, Offices, and Offi-
cers, and Titles of Dignities, noted with this hand :j^:^ throughout the whole
Booke. A worke for ail Louers of any kinde of Learning, most pleasant
and profitable, especially for those of our owne Nation, when by order
ofthe English Alphabet, they may finde out lo. other Tongues, with
their Etymologies, most helpfull to Memory to speake or write, then to
Strangers, if they will draw out of thèse one or more Languages, and
place them in order of Alphabet and Table, and referre them by figures
intothis Booke, as the shallbestlike of. By the Industrie, Studie, Labour,
and at the Charges of lohn Minsheu. Published and Printed Anno 1617.
Cum Gratia et Privilegio Regiae Maiestatis, et vendibiles extant Lon-
dini, apud loannem Brovvne Bibliopolam in vico vocato little Brittaine.
And are to be sold at lohn Brownes Shop a Booke-Seller in little Brittaine
in London.
The size is folio. A second édition was printed July 22, 1625, and published
in 1626. It contains many corrections, altérations, and additions; but the
Welsh and Portuguese languages are omitted. This work is curions, as con-
taining the first printed list of subscribers that was ever prefixed to any book
published in England. The number of thèse subscribers, among whom are
several names of note, was 174. Minsheu was a teacher of languages, and had
no other means of support than what he gained by that employment; yet he
employed several scholars and foreigners to verity his work, by which, we are
told, « he ran into many and great debts )>. It is in this Dictionary that the
comical story of the origin of the word Cockney appears. See Tians. Phil.
Soc. for 1865, p. 230.
107. Etymologicon Linguse Anglicanas, seu Explicatio vocum Angli-
carum Etymologica ex propriis fontibus, scil. ex Linguis duodecim :
Anglo-Saxonica seu Anghca prisca, \ Belgica, notata Belg.
notata AS. 1 i Teutonica recentiori, notata Teut.
Runica , Gothica , Cimbrica seul S Cambro-Britanica, notata C. Br.
Danica antiqua , notata Run.f Ipranco-Gallica, notata Fr.
Dan. } ]Italica, notata It.
Franco-Theotisca, seu Teutonical /Hispanica, notata Hisp.
vetere, notata Fr. Th. \ f Latina, notata Lat.
Danica recentiori, notata Dan. rec. ^ Graeca, notata Gr.
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