John Considine

List of John Benjamins publications for which John Considine plays a role.

Book series

Considine, John 2017 “Si hoc saeculo natus fuisset”: Refurbishing the Catholicon for the 16th centuryLatin Grammars in Transition, 1200 - 1600, Luhtala, Anneli and Mark E. Amsler (eds.), pp. 412–429 | Article
The lexicographical part of the Catholicon of Giovanni Balbi of Genoa (d.1286), compiled in 1286, was the dominant Latin dictionary of the 15th century and the first major Latin dictionary to be printed: 24 editions recorded from the 1460s to 1500, another 7 from 1501 to 1520. In the twenty-five… read more
A problem for historians of pre-modern lexicography is that “lexicography” and indeed “dictionary” were not clearly defined categories for pre-modern scholars. This paper discusses the dictionary-like texts of medieval Latin Christendom; examines the emergence of “dictionary” as an actor’s category… read more
Considine, John 2011 John Lane’s Verball: A lost Elizabethan dictionary projectWords in Dictionaries and History: Essays in honour of R.W. McConchie, Timofeeva, Olga and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. 41–54 | Article
In the liminary materials to an anonymously published narrative poem, The First Booke of the Preservation of King Henry the vij (1599–1600), the author announced a dictionary project, promising – four years before the publication of Cawdrey’s Table Alphabeticall – that he would “set forth a… read more
The interests of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646–1716) in lan­guage have been studied in a classic monograph, Leibniz als Sprachforscher by Sigrid von der Schulen­burg (1885–1943), and in a number of subsequent works (see Dutz 1983, and for some later material, Müller & Heinekamp 1996:26–29).… read more
Considine, John 2010 Towards a History of Chinese LexicographyHistoriographia Linguistica 37:1/2, pp. 133–143 | Review article
This paper attempts to establish the authorship of a milestone in the development of the concept of the Indo-European language family, the dissertation De lingua vetustissima Europae (Wittenberg, 1686). Since the work of G. J. Metcalf in 1966 and 1974, this dissertation has been ascribed to… read more