A large dictionary in three parts: I. The English before the Latin, containing above ten thousand words more than any dictionary yet extant. II. The Latin before the English, with correct and plentiful etymological derivations, philological observations, and phraseological explications: ... III. The proper names of persons, places, and other things necessary to the understanding of historians and poets. In the whole comprehending whatsoever is material in any author upon this subject. Together with very considerable and ample additions, carried on by a diligent search into and perusal of very many authors both ancient and modern. Whereby this work is rendred the most compleat and useful of any that was ever yet extant in this kind.. Performed by the great pains and many years study of Thomas Holyoke, D.D.
Thomas Holyoake (1616-1675)
Category
Books
Date
1677
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3259340
Summary
Bibliographic description
[1376] p. ; fol. Imperfect: wants collective title page and separate title page to "Dictionarium historico-geographico-poeticum" and potentially other leaves. Many openings strewn with loose tulip[?] petals, with leaves of volume stained. Provenance: eighteenth-century mantle armorial bookplate: "Sr. Henry Harpur Bart" [i.e. Sir Henry Harpur, 5th Baronet, (1708-1748)]. Upside down inscription of "John Harpur Esq. at Calke Derbyshire" [probably Sir John Harper, 4th baronet (1680-1741)]. Also inscribed "Jhon Mousely Warne[?] Wlizabeth Mousely his wife" [a variant of Mosely?]. Annotation and red wax seal markings on pastedown. Inscribed at rear: "My own dictionary". Binding: seventeenth- or eighteenth-century calf (a large part is missing from upper board); on six raised bands; double blind fillet borders; both boards loose. Further inscription of "Sir John on bare board suggests volume bound or rebound after Calke acquisition.
Makers and roles
Thomas Holyoake (1616-1675)