Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources

Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources

LC Class

PA2891

The Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources ("DMLBS") is a lexicon of

between 1975 and 2013. In 2016 the complete work was put online. A consolidated reprint in three volumes was published in 2018.

History

In 1913,

to 1600 for a dictionary of "late medieval British Latin".

By 1932 the academy felt that they could usefully publish the first fruits of the project, which appeared in 1934 as the Medieval Latin Word-List from British and Irish Sources, prepared by J. H. Baxter and Charles Johnson.

Print publication history

The DMLBS was published in printed fascicules, from 1975 to 2013, by Oxford University Press:

• I: A–B (R. E. Latham), 17 April 1975,
  ISBN 978-0-19-725948-1
• II: C (R. E. Latham), 14 May 1981,
  ISBN 978-0-19-725968-9
• III: D–E (R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, et al.), 26 June 1986,
  ISBN 978-0-19-726023-4
• IV: F–G–H (D. R. Howlett, A. H. Powell, et al.), 14 December 1989,
  ISBN 978-0-19-726082-1
• V: I–J–K–L (D. R. Howlett), 21 August 1997,
  ISBN 978-0-19-726148-4
• VI: M (D. R. Howlett, J. Blundell, et al.), 3 January 2002,
  ISBN 978-0-19-726240-5
• VII: N (D. R. Howlett), 30 May 2002,
  ISBN 978-0-19-726266-5
• VIII: O (D. R. Howlett), 29 January 2004,
  ISBN 978-0-19-726300-6
• IX: P–Pel (D. R. Howlett), 24 November 2005,
  ISBN 978-0-19-726340-2
• X: Pel–Phi (D. R. Howlett), 18 January 2007,
  ISBN 978-0-19-726387-7
• XI: Phi–Pos (D. R. Howlett), 13 December 2007,
  ISBN 978-0-19-726421-8
• XII: Pos–Pro (D. R. Howlett), 26 March 2009,
  ISBN 978-0-19-726436-2
• XIII: Pro–Reg (D. R. Howlett), 28 October 2010,
  ISBN 978-0-19-726467-6
• XIV: Reg–Sal (D. R. Howlett), 8 December 2011,
  ISBN 978-0-19-726508-6
• XV: Sal–Sol (D. R. Howlett, R. K. Ashdowne), 26 July 2012,
  ISBN 978-0-19-726528-4
• XVI: Sol–Syr (R. K. Ashdowne, D. R. Howlett), 19 February 2013,
  ISBN 978-0-19-726545-1
• XVII: Syr–Z (R. K. Ashdowne), 19 December 2013,
  ISBN 978-0-19-726561-1

A binding case for the first five fascicules was supplied with Fascicule V, forming a first volume (A–L). However, no further binding cases were issued.

In 2018 a three-volume consolidated edition was published incorporating additions and corrections, including those previously published, into the text.

Publication online

In 2016 the whole DMLBS was published online, under licence from the British Academy. The Logeion version is free and is searchable by headword only.^[6] The Brepols version, available by subscription, is more fully searchable.^[7]

See also

• A Latin Dictionary
• Oxford Latin Dictionary
• Lexicon Mediae et Infimae Latinitatis Polonorum

References

Further reading

• Ashdowne, Richard (2014). "Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources". British Academy Review. 24: 46–53.
• Ashdowne, R.K. (2010). "'Ut Latine minus vulgariter magis loquamur': The making of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources". In Christopher Stray (ed.). Classical dictionaries: past, present and future. London: Duckworth. pp. 195–222.
  ISBN 9780715639160
  .
• Howlett, David (2017). "Making the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources". In Richard Ashdowne; Carolinne White (eds.). Latin in Medieval Britain. Proceedings of the British Academy 206. London: British Academy/OUP. pp. 341–349.
  ISBN 9780197266083
  .
• Latham, R.E. (1957). "Suggestions for a British-Latin Dictionary". Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevi. 27 (2): 189–229.
  S2CID 211517160
  .
• Sharpe, Richard (1995). "Modern Dictionaries of Medieval Latin". In Jacqueline Hamesse (ed.). Bilan et perspectives des études mediévales en Europe: actes du premier Congres européen d'études médievales (Spoleto, 27-29 mai 1993). Textes et études du moyen âge. Louvain-la-Neuve: Fédération Internationale des Instituts d'Études Médiévales. pp. 289–304.

External links

• Logeion has a complete, free copy of Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources ("DMLBS"), searchable by headword.
• Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources project website
• Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources project blog
• Quisquiliae, notes from an Assistant Editor on the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources