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Early English Etymologists,"5 dealing with Minsheu, Skinner, and Junius. Obviously intended for the lay xFor a convenient reference to studies prior to 1922, see A. G. Kennedy, A Bibliography of the Writings on the English Language, Cambridge and New Haven, 1927, pp. 443-447. transactions of the Philological Society (London, 1865), pp. 218-293.
Feb 26, 2024 · Junius was accurately skilled in all the northern languages. Skinner probably examined the ancient and remoter dialects only by occasional inspection into dictionaries; but the learning of Junius is often of no other use than to show him a track by which he may deviate from his purpose, to which Skinner always presses forward by the shortest way.
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Philologist, author of an early art history and exponent of the visual arts. Junius was born into an illustrious Calvinist family. His father, Junius the elder (or Du Jon; 1545-1602), was a French Huguenot theologian who taught in Heidelberg and Leiden. His mother was Joanna (d. 1591), daughter of a Belgian noble, Simon l’Hermite. One uncle, Johan ...
De pictura veterum libri tres. Amsterdam: Johann Blaeu, 1637, English, The Painting of the Ancients, in Three bookes Declaring by Historicall Observations and Examples, the Beginning, Progresse, and Consvmmation of that Most Noble Art. London: R. Hodgkinsonne and Daniel Frere, 1638;Catalogus Artificum, in Junius, Franciscus. De pictura veterum libr...
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Dictionary. Langenscheidt dictionaries in various languages. A multi-volume Latin dictionary by Egidio Forcellini. Dictionary definition entries. A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical and stroke for ...
Mar 18, 2024 · Franciscus Junius, the Younger (born 1589, Heidelberg, Palatinate [Germany]—died Nov. 19, 1677, Windsor, Berkshire, Eng.) was a language and literary scholar whose works stimulated interest in the study of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) and the cognate old Germanic languages. Son of Franciscus Junius, a French Protestant theologian, he was ...
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Franciscus Junius (29 January 1591 – 1677), [1] also known as François du Jon, was a pioneer of Germanic philology. As a collector of ancient manuscripts, he published the first modern editions of a number of important texts. In addition, he wrote the first comprehensive overview of ancient writings on the visual arts, which became a ...
with the quality of Junius' etymologies)s . The historical perspective The main concern of this paper is MS Junius 6, originally la belled as 'Dictionarium veteris linguae anglicanae', but more ac curately described in the Bodleian Summary Catalogue as an alpha betical glossary to the works of the fourteenth-century English poet Chaucer.
