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
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3026142
Summary
Bibliographic description
[804] p. . fol.. Old Wimpole shelfmarks: B/4 [pencil]; B.5.3 [dark blue ink]. Also numbered in pencil: 711. Inscription partly illegible: "Semper ab [-] 1671". Provenance: Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf; double blind fillet border; quarter double blind fillet; gilt tooled on spine and board-edges; marbled text-block edges; gilt lettered on red spine-label: Skinneri Etymologicon linguae Angl:. Joints cracking; in bookshoe.
Makers and roles
Stephen Skinner (1623-1667) Thomas Henshaw (1618-1700)