UBC Library is currently trialling the database Lexicons of Early Modern English.

Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) is a historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically-valuable treatises surviving in print or manuscript from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, Commonwealth, and Restoration periods (1480-1702).

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A sample of titles from the over 150 lexicons:

  • Jacques Cartier’s A Short and Brief Narration of the Two Navigations and Discoveries to the Northweast Parts Called New France from 1580
  • lexicons of fashion from the 1690s such as Mundus Mulierbris: or, The Ladies’ Dressing-room Unlocked, and Mundus Foppensis or the Fop Displayed
  • A Key to the Hebrew Bible by William Robertson, fom 1656
  • The trial ends January 10, 2007.

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