Two Centuries of Spanish and English Bilingual Lexicography (1590-1800)

133 Pages·1970·3.757 MB·English

by  Roger J. Steiner

TWO CENTURIES OF SPANISH AND ENGLISH
BILINGUAL LEXICOGRAPHY (1590-1800)
JANUA LINGUARUM
STUDIA MEMORIAE
NICOLAI VAN WIJK DEDICATA
edenda curat
C. H. VAN SCHOONEVELD
INDIANA UNIVERSITY
SERIES PRACTICA
108
1970
MOUTON
THE HAGUE · PARIS
TWO CENTURIES
OF SPANISH AND ENGLISH
BILINGUAL LEXICOGRAPHY
(1590-1800)
by
ROGER J. STEINER
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
El
1970
MOUTON
THE HAGUE · PARIS
© Copyright 1970 in The Netherlands.
Mouton & Co. N.V., Publishers, The Hague.
No part of this book may be translated or reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint,
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Printed in The Netherlands by Mouton & Co., Printers, The Hague.
This book is dedicated to Dr. Edwin B.
Williams, one of the foremost lexicogra-
phers of today. The paths followed in my
research have been illumined by the prin-
ciples of lexicography which he has devel-
oped. The clarity and accuracy of his work
demonstrate that dictionaries can be in-
creasingly useful tools in enabling people
to understand one another.

CONTENTS
0. Introduction 9
1. John Thorius, 1590 15
2. Richard Percyvall, 1591 17
3. William Stepney, 1591 36
4. John Minsheu, 1599 38
5. John Minsheu, 1617 52
6. John Minsheu, 1623 55
7. Captain John Stevens, 1705, 1706, 1726 58
8. Peter Pineda, 1740 68
9. Joseph Girai Delpino, 1763 76
10. Joseph Baretti, 1778, 1786 85
11. Thomas Connelly and Thomas Higgins, 1797-1798 92
12. Summary, Evaluation, and Conclusions 103
Appendix A: A Bibliographical Sampling of Translations Made Before
1591 from Spanish to English 108
Appendix B: Percyvall's Rules for Accent and Gender Ill
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Appendix C: Intrigue in the 16th-century English Book Trade . . 113
Appendix D: A Chronological Listing of Spanish Dictionaries Before 1600 115
Bibliography 120
Index 127
0. INTRODUCTION
0.1. THE FIELD OF STUDY
The scope of this research is a history of Spanish and English bilingual lexicography
beginning in the sixteenth century and continuing through the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries. Polyglot dictionaries and monolingual dictionaries as well as
bilingual dictionaries in language combinations other than Spanish and English are
ancillary to the study. The beginning of the nineteenth century marks a turning
point in the development of Spanish and English bilingual lexicography because,
whereas the lexicographers of the earlier centuries usually borrowed from or adapted
only one Spanish and English bilingual dictionary, namely, that of their predecessor,
a new development occurs in the nineteenth century with the fusion of different
Spanish and English bilingual dictionaries and their reduction into more compact
format, for example, the combination, made by a group of English publishers in
1802, of the Connelly and the Neuman dictionary.
The purpose of this study is to present a source of information which I hope will
be useful to the lexicographer, the lexicologist, the phonetician, the philologist, and
the literary historian.
The procedure used in presenting this study is to take each dictionary in chrono-
logical order and consider it in the manner suggested in the following outline:
I. Description of facts concerning the dictionary
A. Brief introductory paragraph serving to identify the dictionary, to relate it
to its predecessors, and to indicate in a general way the place it holds in
lexicographical history
B. Consideration of the dictionary as a volume - the printing and the format
C. Faithful copy of the title page
D. Sources of the dictionary with any relevant data concerning its compilation
and publication
Π. Description of the text of the dictionary
A. Contents of the body of the dictionary