Lexicon tetraglotton
Subtitle: an English-French-Italian-Spanish dictionary : whereunto is adjoined a large nomenclature of the proper terms (in all the four) belonging to several arts and sciences, to recreations, to professions both liberal and mechanick, &c. ... : with another volume of the choicest proverbs in all the said toungs ... and the English translated into the other three ... : moreover, there are sundry familiar letters and verses running all in proverbs with a particular tome of the British or old Cambrian sayed sawes and adages ... : lastly, there are five centuries of new sayings ...
By: by the labours and lucubrations of James Hovvell, Esq.
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 636:6.
Publisher: Printed by J.G. for Samuel Thomson ...
Published: 1976
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 629
Subjects: English language -- Dictionaries -- Polyglot.; French language -- Dictionaries -- Polyglot.; Italian language -- Dictionaries -- Polyglot.; Spanish language -- Dictionaries -- Polyglot.; Proverbs.
Genres: Dictionaries
Other titles: English-French-Italian-Spanish dictionary; English, French, Italian, Spanish dictionary; Particular vocabulary or nomenclature in English, Italian, French, and Spanish; Vocabulario particolare o nomenclatura italiana, francese, spagnuola, inglese; Vocabulaire particulier ou nomenclature françoise, italienne, angloise, espagnole; Vocabulario particular o nomenclatura española, inglese, italiana, francese; Paroimiographia; Proverbs or old sayed savves & adages; Old sayed sawes & adages; Old sayed sawes and adages; Proverbes d'elite et dictons communs ou vieux quolibets en la langue françoise; Some choice proverbs and common sayings or old adages; Proverbi gli più scelti nella lingua italiana; Italian proverbs of the choicest sort; Refranes o proverbios en romance; Proverbs or adages in the Spanish toung; Diharebion Cymraeg wedu ei cysiethu yn saisoneg; British or old Cambrian proverbs and Cymraecan adages; Divers centuries of new sayings which may serve for proverbs to posterity
Notes: Added t.p. on p. [41]: A particular vocabvlary or nomenclature in English, Italian, French, and Spanish ... = Vocabulario particolare ò nomenclatura italiana, francese, spagnuola, inglese ... = Vocabulaire particulier ou nomenclatvre françoise, italienne, angloise, espagnole ... = Vocabvlario particvlar ô nomenclatura española, inglese, italiana, francese ... / labore & lucubrationibus Jacobi Howell ... London : Printed by Thomas Leach, 1659.

Added t.p.: Paroimiographia : Proverbs or old sayed savves & adages in English (or the Saxon toung), Italian, French and Spanish whereunto the British ... are added ... / collected by J.H. Esqr. London : Printed by J.G., 1659.

Includes added titles: Proverbes d'elite et dictons communs ou vieux quolibets en la langue françoise ... = Some choice proverbs and common sayings or old adages in the French toung ... ; Proverbi gli più scelti nella lingua italiana ... = Italian proverbs of the choicest sort ... ; Refranes o proverbios en romance ò la lengua castellana a los quales se han anadido algunos portuguezes, catalanes y gallegos ... = Proverbs or adages in the Spanish toung ... ; Diharebion Cymraeg vvedu ei cysiethu yn saisoneg = British or old Cambrian proverbs and Cymraecan adages ... ; Divers centuries of nevv sayings which may serve for proverbs to posterity.

Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library.

Wing H3088

Wing H3098 (Paroimiographia)

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1976. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 636:6)