Latin dictionaries of the 1550s

Abstract Chapter 7 discusses the Latin dictionaries, all smaller than the Bibliotheca Eliotae, and all meant as schoolbooks or (in at least one case) undergraduate textbooks, which followed in the wake of that large work. One of these, Jean Véron’s Latin–English–French Dictionariolum puerorum of 1552, was closely based on a dictionary by Robert Estienne; a second, Richard Howlet’s alphabetized English–Latin Abcedarium of the same year, was based on the English wordlist of Palsgrave and the Latin of the Bibliotheca Eliotae; a third, John Withals’s subject-ordered English–Latin Shorte dictionarie of 1553, is based on a continental European school dictionary. Another compilation of the 1550s, an English–Latin work by John Barrett, was not published until 1574, but the first stage of its making is discussed here.