“Halles Lanfranke” and its most excellent and learned expositive table
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Jukka Tyrkkö
Abstract
This paper discusses the lexicographical contributions of John Halle (1529–1568), a surgeon and a Protestant poet from Maidstone, Kent. Halle was a member of progressive group of elite surgeons intent on improving the profession’s prestige by educating its members and by producing vernacular translations of surgical books. Halle’s major contribution was his translation of Lanfranc of Milan’s Chirurgia parva, an important medieval surgical manual. Entitled A most excellent and learned vvoorke of chirurgerie, called Chirurgia parua Lanfranci (1565), Halle’s translation garnered high praise, prompting the physician William Cuningham to suggest that Halle’s contributions in clarifying Lanfranc’s text were such that the book be called “Halles Lanfranke.” The glossary or “expositive table” compiled by Halle is an important early example of medical lexicography.
Abstract
This paper discusses the lexicographical contributions of John Halle (1529–1568), a surgeon and a Protestant poet from Maidstone, Kent. Halle was a member of progressive group of elite surgeons intent on improving the profession’s prestige by educating its members and by producing vernacular translations of surgical books. Halle’s major contribution was his translation of Lanfranc of Milan’s Chirurgia parva, an important medieval surgical manual. Entitled A most excellent and learned vvoorke of chirurgerie, called Chirurgia parua Lanfranci (1565), Halle’s translation garnered high praise, prompting the physician William Cuningham to suggest that Halle’s contributions in clarifying Lanfranc’s text were such that the book be called “Halles Lanfranke.” The glossary or “expositive table” compiled by Halle is an important early example of medical lexicography.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Tabula gratulatoria vii
- Preface ix
- Introduction xiii
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Part I. History of dictionaries
- The Flores of Ouide (1513) 3
- “Halles Lanfranke” and its most excellent and learned expositive table 17
- John Lane’s Verball 41
- The linking of lemma to gloss in Elyot’s Dictionary (1538) 55
- Music amidst the tumult 79
- Chaos and old night 91
- Online dictionaries of English slang 109
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Part II. Word history and cultural history
- Old English etymologies in Christfrid Ganander’s Nytt Finskt Lexicon (1787) 131
- The origin of the word yeoman 153
- Early East India Company merchants and a rare word for sex 169
- From denominal to deverbal 193
- A gente Anglorum appellatur 219
- William Lambarde and Thomas Milles in search of the golden past 233
- Contempt 249
- A lexical skirmish 269
- Index of subjects 287
- Index of personal names 291
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Tabula gratulatoria vii
- Preface ix
- Introduction xiii
-
Part I. History of dictionaries
- The Flores of Ouide (1513) 3
- “Halles Lanfranke” and its most excellent and learned expositive table 17
- John Lane’s Verball 41
- The linking of lemma to gloss in Elyot’s Dictionary (1538) 55
- Music amidst the tumult 79
- Chaos and old night 91
- Online dictionaries of English slang 109
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Part II. Word history and cultural history
- Old English etymologies in Christfrid Ganander’s Nytt Finskt Lexicon (1787) 131
- The origin of the word yeoman 153
- Early East India Company merchants and a rare word for sex 169
- From denominal to deverbal 193
- A gente Anglorum appellatur 219
- William Lambarde and Thomas Milles in search of the golden past 233
- Contempt 249
- A lexical skirmish 269
- Index of subjects 287
- Index of personal names 291
