Riders dictionarie, . corrected and augmented with the addition of many hundred words both out of the law, and out of the Latine, French, and other languages, such as were and are with us in common use, but never printed till now, to the perfecting of the worke. The barbarous words which were many hundreds are expunged, to the helpe of young scholars, which before they used in stead of good words. In the end of the dictionarie you shall find certaine generall heads of birds, colours ... Also hereunto is annexed certaine tables of weights and measures, the valuation of auncient and moderne coines; as also a table of the Hebrew, Greeke, and Latine measures, reduced to our English standard and assise: and the weights used in physicke, none of which were ever in Riders worke. Whereunto is joyned a dictionarie etymologicall, deriving each word from his proper fountaine, the first that ever was extant in this kind, with many worthy castigations and additions, in this last edition, as will appeare in the title and epistle before it. Now newly corrected and much augmented by Francis Holy-Oke.
John Rider (1562-1632) Bishop of Killaloe
Category
Books
Date
1640
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 3143124
Summary
Bibliographic description
[1608] p. . 4to.. Bound with the 'Dictionarium Etymologicum Latinum' section first. Appears to lack sig.2D.. Provenance: Scribblings on flyleaves in various hands, including 'Arthur Purefey', and one that might be John, Lord Robartes.. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf, blind filets. Edges stained red. Repaired, nineteenth century, with new endpapers and pastedowns. Bookshoe.
Makers and roles
John Rider (1562-1632) Bishop of Killaloe Francis Holyoake (1567-1653) Thomas Thomas (1553-1588)