Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• I. The Times and the Man
  • Introduction
  • The Estienne Family
• II. Robert Estienne’s Glossary of Biblical Proper Names and the Polyglot Bibles
  • The Complutensian Polyglot
  • The Antwerp Polyglot
  • The London Polyglot
• III. Estienne: Geneva Concordance, Minsheu’s Guide, Scripture Names Expounded
  • The Geneva Concordance
  • Minsheu’s Guide into Tongues
  • Scripture Names Expounded
• IV. Estienne: Cruden’s Concordance
• V. Estienne: Peter Oliver’s The Scripture Lexicon
• VI. Proper Names in the Estienne Dictionaries
• VII. The Impact of Estienne’s Dictionaries in England
  • Estienne’s Dictionarium Latino-Gallicum and Cooper’s Thesaurus
  • Estienne’s Schoolboy Dictionaries in England
  • Estienne’s French-Latin Texts and the Huloet Dictionaries
  • Estienne’s Dictionaries and Baret’s Alvearie
  • Estienne’s Proper-Name Dictionaries and English Authors
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

DeWitt T. Starnes (1888-1967) was Professor of English at The University of Texas at Austin and an authority in the field of Renaissance language and dictionaries