The Flores of Ouide (1513)
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Ian Lancashire
Abstract
Wynkyn de Worde, heir to Caxton’s press, published in 1513 a little textbook entitled The flores of Ouide de arte amandi with theyr englysshe afore them: and two alphabete tablys (STC 18934). It has two substantial lexical tables, English-Latin, and Latin-English, that enable students to translate select Ovidian sentences from either language into the other. Ovid’s poem on the craft of making love to women is at face value a peculiar set text for early Tudor grammar-school boys. What were the auspices for The flores, and who is its putative author, a man named Walter?
Abstract
Wynkyn de Worde, heir to Caxton’s press, published in 1513 a little textbook entitled The flores of Ouide de arte amandi with theyr englysshe afore them: and two alphabete tablys (STC 18934). It has two substantial lexical tables, English-Latin, and Latin-English, that enable students to translate select Ovidian sentences from either language into the other. Ovid’s poem on the craft of making love to women is at face value a peculiar set text for early Tudor grammar-school boys. What were the auspices for The flores, and who is its putative author, a man named Walter?
Chapters in this book
- 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
Chapters in this book
- 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
