Dictionaries of Latin from 1565 to 1580

Abstract Chapter 10 tells the story of the dictionaries of Latin produced in the generation after Cooper’s Thesaurus. These were schoolbooks, with varied macrostructure. They included Lewys Evans’s new editions of Withals’s subject-ordered English–Latin Shorte dictionarie; Peter Levins’s Manipulus vocabulorum, an English–Latin dictionary organized by rhyme; John Higgins’s new English–Latin–French edition of Richard Howlet’s alphabetically ordered English–Latin Abcedarium, with added phraseological material, published as Huloets dictionarie; an anonymous translation of Simon Pelgrom’s synonym dictionary; and John Barrett’s alphabetically ordered English–Latin–French Alvearie, which is even richer in phraseological material than Huloets dictionarie; a second edition of the Alvearie, by the first English professional lexicographer, Abraham Fleming, added Greek. Particular attention is given to the biographical details of lexicographers, and hence to the place of Latin dictionaries in the intellectual culture of Elizabethan England.