The Sources of the Etymologicum Anglicanum (1743) by Franciscus Junius

The Sources of the Etymologicum Anglicanum (1743) by Franciscus Junius Martha B. Mayou FranciscusJunius (1591-1677) was a Dutchman who through his textual and lexicographical scholarship "laid the foundations of Germanic philology" (Bennett 1938, 25). He wrote the first Gothic dictionary (1665), and his edition of the poems now known as Genesis A, Genesis B, Exodus, Daniel, and Christ and Satan (1655),1 for which he drew on an "unsurpassed" knowledge of Old English, was the earliest printing of these texts (Bennett 1938, 24). His Etymologicum Anglicanum served as a principal source for SamuelJohnson's etymologies (1755) and remained a respected authority on English etymology well into the 19th century (Weekley 1931, 63). The manuscript ofJunius's Dictionarium Saxonicum, "one of the greatest lexicographical projects ever planned and accomplished by one man," was the basis of Edward Lye's Dictionarium Saxonico- et Gothico-Latinum (1772) and thus "became the unacknowledged ancestor of subsequent Anglo-Saxon dictionaries " (Bennett 1938, 30) .Junius also influenced the future of Germanic studies through his close contact with many scholars of the day. In particular, despite his never having taught a class, he bequeathed a "splendid legacy of learning" to early Anglo-Saxon scholarship at Oxford (Douglas 1951, 64-65). In his Etymologicum Anglicanum, edited long afterJunius's death by Edward Lye in 1743, Junius cites a wide range of sources: dictionaries from all periods, medieval chronicles, scientific monographs, etc. (see Sample 1). Many are mentioned cryptically (see Sample 2 for typical examples of source citations in entries), and the references are therefore hopelessly impenetrable to the modern reader. My study of lCaedmonis monachiparaphrasis poética genesios ..., Amsterdam. The Sources ol the Etymologicum Anglicanum 91 Sample 1 A PAGE FROM THE ETYMOLOGICUM ANGLICANUM P R. **R«fti'rnttf aetata Anglt têbtfritkt (quodetiam "¿riji dicunt".) lUcCafjub. Ad hoc interim frife, Vittau», integer, referendum eft frilking, Victim», ¿e quo pa* nonnihil dijnmua in anrn *. ad gl. D, S* ¡n Reccns caro. r. quoquc Spelm. irt Fritcinga. Ff.fi Chfluctrrocft Oncrarcnave.m,varia mcreSrnonialarcinifqu * iriMvcmcongcrcre· £|)tit marctwntfö tjan ten frrtQfi^ipi»0ttcbi. Li. v. 7J. V.qur purtlo ante dixrrmis m hain -* ^ífg¿íf.f.idtmqiíoqvjcCh*ucen>MontlrgemCMJ Mctcuti) diccbatur ^otoeïï frft pfutt *f rtCfK Jtö"fU. Di.v.rpa. — tíoiufc nibiron 5er ciounrt X0fl,i9 full of rupf ihm« fr«t. RR. jisj. Sn tacit ï)fab* fato 3 tretout* ttoatii tUQHiri) ironfp frrt fo, tijat itftja» no|f41» t&tir^outen niCAt Atih Dhnft to líanö miii fr Z}t Km$6 ljojiDr aiti> tlje roíaltf. Fklt v.dftur thmoro iliti Cmuiu· arnbiens vrpicen» rjpitiä, ur ? cqvívijc vcl íilia QUXvISn1)H vulgaris vefríeis eiTnamcnra eommolit úi impitntrCfttuf, iriJgt(t!UL' cmincreni arque irt fXuloí I* HTVHMHn ÍTlCUirtTMlt. 2 frrr ?? goltr F? lj«ö »tit Ijrr !»err» fljiD upon tjjat a totfitr caroime Qe tore lEEïittjflûiitOtuisfinaH— r.\v.v2ir, lî. WK ¡-'rette d\ tm ointe» de /Vr, yti tmbrtßt it moytH /Ttmr tant. Fanme igitur à fifmiuudifiehujusannuli fcrrei, qui rnodkilum im· umbilifum rotae intcrïus à rspidiflima: cirummi* lutioms atrntu drfendir, ui.nn ffft nuiKupj« runt Anali urcuLrern ilium vertici«, omnium Chiiuc«·, Edcrc, mAnducar*. ítem jty»«*· r'^.f·, cidrm denique Grammatico ^-í»*» exp. tA·^,'Mm , #4fWM*. Implere» gravare, cura quo pluriB )urn irriiiiritis videnrur hnSerc Al. uraz, Coimrflxtur , Cc B. btfttt» Helluo. Angl, mtnïn. y>«t (fuacenuí lndigntri, /rtroerc. riogi deno. rat, vider) poreft orcurn traxifiie ex ffwrii^f, Frcmo, At hocfut eft freifmttf QuCruIuí, morofui , plia« juJto fo.icitu· & mulrUiiTimo niiriiarum curarum cedio converfantibus difficilior. Pro «u AJiutonca «Um )*ppctfuJl dicebant; F R. ([uod ab cadem origine dcrlvitum puto: quum veriiîmtlc fit ex Ft*-*.«« ürrum primü traiillc vtrljum fetiprctan. aiquc ex ça pa(U» (iöu,n p-ppcrpull. tjuod hakt Kufh. codex Luc XU1 26> 51F ^nne "e %*rtc Ist/·]-» ij- mayun ge, hpact oj: ??????? jreppftj-ull m?n 5c rms ? *'!» er^'j neque quid itiiniinijm cjV, [uitillis, rtquid de esetem fnllkit'i efts'? ul-i Cortón. htm» Of oTSrium fxppirfuCa ???·p:? i JiVJi:!jrulk * Jn- pnt ? It. /Víí/? ft> Pmptraruîa. Dc Tticix. f«-7.7.er>, Fdorc, tomeder^ ?. gl. I), i*. in Comcßjiiir. -- ¡rett tranficruiu An¿li ad animunixgrc fiTCnrium aFirjuiJ, quud nniumè pol". iui-.t concoqucrx...