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Archive Print Item: Swedish - Place names/FAL

Ortnamnen i Skåne : Etymologiskt försök

Falkman, Axel

1877

Bibliography: p. 5-9.

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Archive Print Item: YAS 0997

Place-names of south-west Yorkshire : that is, of so much of the West Riding as lies south of the Aire from Keighley onwards

Goodall, Armitage

1914

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Archive Print Item: Ripon Cathedral Library VII.C.8

An universal etymological English dictionary : comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue... And also a brief and clear explication of all difficult words ... Together with a large collection and explication of words and phrases us'd in our ancient statutes, charters, writs ... and the etymology and interpretation of the proper names of men, women, and remarkable places in Great Britain ... To which is added, a collection of our most common proverbs

Bailey, N (1742)

1731

Statement of responsibility follows edition statement.

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Archive Print Item: Swedish - Place names/BRU

Ägonamn i Rönnebergs härad I

Bruhn, Erik Konrad

[1931]

No more published. Includes letters A-N. Uppsala doctoral dissertation.

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Archive Print Item: YAS 1008

An universal etymological English dictionary : comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue, either ancient or modern, from the Ancient British, Saxon, Danish, Norman and Modern French, Teutonic, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, as also from the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew Languages, each in their proper characters : and also a brief and clear explication of all difficult words derived from any of the aforesaid languages; and terms of art relating to anatomy, botany, physick, pharmacy, surgery, chymistry, philosophy, divinity, mathematicks, grammar, logick, rhetorick, musick, heraldry, maritime affairs, military discipline, horsemanship, hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing, gardening, husbandry, handicrafts, confectionary, carving, cookery, &c. : together with a large collection and explication of words and phrases us’d in our ancient statutes, charters, writs, old records, and processes at law ; and the etymology and interpretation of the proper names of men, women, and remarkable places in Great Britain : also the dialects of our different counties. Containing many thousand words more than either Harris, Philips, Kersey, or any English Dictionary before extant. To which is added a collection of our most common proverbs, with their explication and illustration. The whole work compil’d and methodically digested, as well for the entertainment of the curious, as the information of the ignorant, and for the benefit of young students, artificers, tradesmen and foreigners, who are desirous thorowly to understand what they speak, read, or write

Bailey, N (1742)

MDCXXVIII [1728]

Indexed in: ESTC,

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Archive Print part: BC Yorkshire H-She-6/ADD

A supplement to the Sheffield glossary

Addy, Sidney Oldall (1848-1933)

1891

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Archive Print Item: Ripon Cathedral Library VII.C.9

The universal etymological English dictionary : containing an additional collection of words (not in the first volume) with their explications and etymologies... Also an explication of hard and technical words, or terms, in all arts and sciences ... Illustrated with above five hundred cuts ... Likewise a collection and explanation of words and phrases us'd in our ancient charters, statues [sic], writs ... To which is added, an additional collection of proper names of persons and places in Great Britain ... Vol. II

Bailey, N (1742)

1731

Statement of responsibility follows edition statement. Although called Vol. II, this is a supplement to the author's An universal etymological English dictionary. Cf. Alston, R.C. Engl. language. ...

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Archive Print part: BC Yorkshire H-She-6/ADD

A glossary of words used in the neighbourhood of Sheffield : including a selection of local names, and some notices of folk-lore, games, and customs

Addy, Sidney Oldall (1848-1933)

1888

"Addenda and errata": p. 293-329.

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Archive Print part: Cookery D/API

Itinerarium provinciarum Antonini Augusti : Vibius Sequester De fluminu. & aliarum rerum nominibus in ordinem elementorum digestis. P. Victor de regionibus urbis Romae. Dionysius Afer de situ orbis Prisciano interprete. Oposucula... ad exemplar Aldinum diligenter emendata fuere

Vibius Sequester; Dionysius Periegetes; Priscian (fl.ca.500-530); Victor, Publius

[1550?]

"P. Victor De regionibus urbis Romae" is a literary forgery of the 15th century, represented as the work of a newly discovered author, PubliusVictor.

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Archive Print part: Barbier Collection G-1/SER

Contributo toponomastico alla teoria della continuită nel medioevo delle comunită rurali romane e preromane dell'Italia superiore

Serra, Giandomenico (1885-); Universitate regele Ferdinand I din Cluj

1931

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Archive Print Item: YAS 1666

The survey of the county of York, taken by John de Kirkby, commonly called Kirkby's inquest : Also Inquisitions of the knights' fees, the Nomina villarum for Yorkshire, and an appendix of illustrative documents

Kirkby, John Bishop of Ely (1290); Skaife, Robert H; Great Britain. Exchequer; Surtees Society

1867

Edited by R.H. Skaife. The text of Kirkby's inquest is derived mostly from a copy belonging to the dean and chapter of York; that of the Nomina villarum (previously printed under the editorial care ...

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