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Towering above printers of his time and their successors for many years afterward was the figure of Robert Estienne, the great French lexicographer of the sixteenth century, whose contribution to knowledge and its dissemination is the subject of this authoritative book.

Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • I. The Times and the Man
    • Introduction
    • The Estienne Family
  • II. Robert Estienne’s Glossary of Biblical Proper Names and the Polyglot Bibles
    • The Complutensian Polyglot
    • The Antwerp Polyglot
    • The London Polyglot
  • III. Estienne: Geneva Concordance, Minsheu’s Guide, Scripture Names Expounded
    • The Geneva Concordance
    • Minsheu’s Guide into Tongues
    • Scripture Names Expounded
  • IV. Estienne: Cruden’s Concordance
  • V. Estienne: Peter Oliver’s The Scripture Lexicon
  • VI. Proper Names in the Estienne Dictionaries
  • VII. The Impact of Estienne’s Dictionaries in England
    • Estienne’s Dictionarium Latino-Gallicum and Cooper’s Thesaurus
    • Estienne’s Schoolboy Dictionaries in England
    • Estienne’s French-Latin Texts and the Huloet Dictionaries
    • Estienne’s Dictionaries and Baret’s Alvearie
    • Estienne’s Proper-Name Dictionaries and English Authors
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Robert Estiennes Influence on Lexicography

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 01/01/1963
      ISBN13: 9780292741843, 978-0292741843
      ISBN10: 0292741847
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Towering above printers of his time and their successors for many years afterward was the figure of Robert Estienne, the great French lexicographer of the sixteenth century, whose contribution to knowledge and its dissemination is the subject of this authoritative book.

      Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Acknowledgments
      • I. The Times and the Man
        • Introduction
        • The Estienne Family
      • II. Robert Estienne’s Glossary of Biblical Proper Names and the Polyglot Bibles
        • The Complutensian Polyglot
        • The Antwerp Polyglot
        • The London Polyglot
      • III. Estienne: Geneva Concordance, Minsheu’s Guide, Scripture Names Expounded
        • The Geneva Concordance
        • Minsheu’s Guide into Tongues
        • Scripture Names Expounded
      • IV. Estienne: Cruden’s Concordance
      • V. Estienne: Peter Oliver’s The Scripture Lexicon
      • VI. Proper Names in the Estienne Dictionaries
      • VII. The Impact of Estienne’s Dictionaries in England
        • Estienne’s Dictionarium Latino-Gallicum and Cooper’s Thesaurus
        • Estienne’s Schoolboy Dictionaries in England
        • Estienne’s French-Latin Texts and the Huloet Dictionaries
        • Estienne’s Dictionaries and Baret’s Alvearie
        • Estienne’s Proper-Name Dictionaries and English Authors
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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