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"The T. W. Thompson Collection of Gypsy Folk Tales: An Edition with Commentary and Analytical Indexes"

Clinch, Angela Jane

1982

Ph.D. thesis consisting of Thomas William Thompson's folktales collected from English Gypsy Traveller communities between 1908 and 1924. The tales have been classified and arranged according to the Aa...

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Mithridates oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde mit dem Vater Unser als Sprachprobe in beynahe fünfhundert Sprachen und Mundarten (v.1)

Adelung, Johann Christoph (1732-1806); Vater, Johann Severin (1771-1826); Adelung, Friedrich von (1768-1843); Humboldt, Wilhelm (1767-1835)

1806-1817

Vols. 2-4 edited from manuscripts of Adelung, with additions, by Johann Severin Vater.--v. 2-4 t.p. Vol. 3 issued in 3 pts., 1812, 1813, and 1816. Each pt. has separate t.p., and v. 3, pt. 3 has sep...

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Mithridates oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde mit dem Vater Unser als Sprachprobe in beynahe fünfhundert Sprachen und Mundarten (v.2)

Adelung, Johann Christoph (1732-1806); Vater, Johann Severin (1771-1826); Adelung, Friedrich von (1768-1843); Humboldt, Wilhelm (1767-1835)

1806-1817

Vols. 2-4 edited from manuscripts of Adelung, with additions, by Johann Severin Vater.--v. 2-4 t.p. Vol. 3 issued in 3 pts., 1812, 1813, and 1816. Each pt. has separate t.p., and v. 3, pt. 3 has sep...

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Mithridates oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde mit dem Vater Unser als Sprachprobe in beynahe fünfhundert Sprachen und Mundarten (v.3 pt.1)

Adelung, Johann Christoph (1732-1806); Vater, Johann Severin (1771-1826); Adelung, Friedrich von (1768-1843); Humboldt, Wilhelm (1767-1835)

1806-1817

Vols. 2-4 edited from manuscripts of Adelung, with additions, by Johann Severin Vater.--v. 2-4 t.p. Vol. 3 issued in 3 pts., 1812, 1813, and 1816. Each pt. has separate t.p., and v. 3, pt. 3 has sep...

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Mithridates oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde mit dem Vater Unser als Sprachprobe in beynahe fünfhundert Sprachen und Mundarten (v.3 pt.3)

Adelung, Johann Christoph (1732-1806); Vater, Johann Severin (1771-1826); Adelung, Friedrich von (1768-1843); Humboldt, Wilhelm (1767-1835)

1806-1817

Vols. 2-4 edited from manuscripts of Adelung, with additions, by Johann Severin Vater.--v. 2-4 t.p. Vol. 3 issued in 3 pts., 1812, 1813, and 1816. Each pt. has separate t.p., and v. 3, pt. 3 has sep...

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Mithridates oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde mit dem Vater Unser als Sprachprobe in beynahe fünfhundert Sprachen und Mundarten (v.4)

Adelung, Johann Christoph (1732-1806); Vater, Johann Severin (1771-1826); Adelung, Friedrich von (1768-1843); Humboldt, Wilhelm (1767-1835)

1806-1817

Vols. 2-4 edited from manuscripts of Adelung, with additions, by Johann Severin Vater.--v. 2-4 t.p. Vol. 3 issued in 3 pts., 1812, 1813, and 1816. Each pt. has separate t.p., and v. 3, pt. 3 has sep...

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"Inward" and "outward" : a study in early Quaker language

Creasey, Maurice Abner; Friends' Historical Society

1962

"The Presidential Address to the Friends Historical Society...delivered at Friends' House, London, on 5th October, 1961."

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Miscellaneous Dialect Papers 3

1960-1979

This file contains a photocopy of Vivienne Furze's paper on the Devonshire dialect, from an unidentified publication, pp. 20-21; an ms. orthographic and phonetic transcription of Purbeck marblers' dia...

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