Etymologicon linguæ Anglicanæ, . seu Explicatio vocum Anglicarum etymologica ex propriis fontibus, scil. ex linguis duodecim; Anglo-Saxonica seu Anglica prisca, notata AS. Runica, Gothica, Cimbrica, seu Danica antiqua, notata Run. Dan. Franco-Theotisca, seu Teutonica vetere, notata Fr. Th. Danica recentiori, notata Dan. rec. Belgica, notata Belg. Teutonica recentiori, notata Teut. Cambro-Britanica, notata C. Br. Franco Gallica, notata Fr. Italica, notata It. Hispanica, notata Hisp. Latina, notata Lat. Græca, notata Gr. Omissis interim iis omnibus quæ, unica litera addita vel mutata, Romanam profitentur originem, utpote quæ pueris nota sunt, & librum in incommodam molem attollerent; omissis etiam ob eandem causam derivativis ferè omnibus, ut quæ expositis radicibus, neminem propitio Mercurio natum latere possunt. ... Authore Stephano Skinner, M.D.
Stephen Skinner (1623-1667)
Category
Books
Date
1671
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3026141
Summary
Bibliographic description
[804] p. . fol.. Not indigenous. Loosely inserted: sheet of Norris's manuscriptnotes. Provenance: On title page verso: Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate lettered The Right Hon.ble Basil Feilding Earl of Denbigh 1703 (Franks 10304 or 10305 (a smaller plate)). [i.e. Basil Feilding (1668-1717), 4th Earl of Denbigh and 3rd Earl of Desmond]. Eighteenth-century ink pressmark on detached pastedown. Nineteenth-century (?) inscription on flyleaf: E. M. Shoot. Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Inscribed on pastedown in his hand: Newnham Paddox 1/10 '46 [Newnham Paddox, Warwickshire, home of Feilding family, Earls of Denbigh]. Binding: Seventeenth-century (?) full sheep over boards; blind fillet and quarter blind fillet; morocco spine label: "Skinneri Lexicon"; sewn on five raised bands
Makers and roles
Stephen Skinner (1623-1667) Thomas Henshaw (1618-1700)