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Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print and online

Originally published
  
1975

OCLC
  
1369101

Publication date
  
1975 to 2013

Dewey Decimal
  
473/.21

Country
  
United Kingdom

Author
  
Ronald Edward Latham, David Robert Howlett, Richard Ashdowne, et al.

Publisher
  
Oxford University Press for the British Academy

Similar
  
Oxford Latin Dictionary, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, A Latin Dictionary, Dictionary of Old English, An Anglo‑Saxon Dictionary

Dictionary of medieval latin from british sources


The Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources is a lexicon of Medieval Latin, published by the British Academy. The dictionary is not founded upon any earlier dictionary; it is founded upon original research. After decades of preparatory work, work on the dictionary itself was begun in 1965, and it was published in fascicules between 1975 and 2013. In 2016 the complete work was put online.

Contents

History

In 1913, Robert Whitwell, a prolific contributor to the OED, petitioned the British Academy to use the imminent International Congress of Historical Studies to propose a replacement for the standard dictionary of medieval Latin, Du Cange's Glossarium (1678). Whitwell's idea was taken up in 1920 by the new International Union of Academies, which decided in 1924 that member academies should produce dictionaries based on those medieval Latin texts produced in geographic areas corresponding to their respective present-day territories, whilst also furnishing the material for an international Novum Glossarium. To this end, the British Academy appointed two committees to direct the collection of quotations, one covering the sixth to eleventh centuries for the Novum Glossarium and the other covering 1066 to 1600 for a dictionary of "late medieval British Latin".

By 1932 the Academy felt that they could usefully publish the first fruits of the project, which appeared in 1934 as the Medieval Latin Word-List from British and Irish Sources; a Revised Word-List appeared in 1965.

Published fascicules

  • I: A–B (R.E. Latham), 17 April 1975, ISBN 978-0-19-725948-1
  • II: C (R.E. Latham), 14 May 1981, ISBN 978-0-19-725968-9
  • III: D–E (R.E. Latham, D.R. Howlett, et al.), 26 June 1986, ISBN 978-0-19-726023-4
  • IV: F–G–H (D.R. Howlett, A.H. Powell, et al.), 14 December 1989, ISBN 978-0-19-726082-1
  • V: I–J–K–L (D.R. Howlett), 21 August 1997, ISBN 978-0-19-726148-4
  • VI: M (D.R. Howlett, J. Blundell, et al.), 3 January 2002, ISBN 978-0-19-726240-5
  • VII: N (D.R. Howlett), 30 May 2002, ISBN 978-0-19-726266-5
  • VIII: O (D.R. Howlett), 29 January 2004, ISBN 978-0-19-726300-6
  • IX: P–Pel (D.R. Howlett), 24 November 2005, ISBN 978-0-19-726340-2
  • X: Pel–Phi (D.R. Howlett), 18 January 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-726387-7
  • XI: Phi–Pos (D.R. Howlett), 13 December 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-726421-8
  • XII: Pos–Pro (D.R. Howlett), 26 March 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-726436-2
  • XIII: Pro–Reg (D.R. Howlett), 28 October 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-726467-6
  • XIV: Reg–Sal (D.R. Howlett), 8 December 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-726508-6
  • XV: Sal–Sol (D.R. Howlett, R.K. Ashdowne), 26 July 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-726528-4
  • XVI: Sol–Syr (R.K. Ashdowne, D.R. Howlett), 19 February 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-726545-1
  • XVII: Syr–Z (R.K. Ashdowne), 19 December 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-726561-1

    • A binding case for the first five fascicules is supplied with Fascicule V, forming the first volume (A–L).

    References

    Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources Wikipedia
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