Authority Cited: Hickes
Author name and dates: George Hickes (1642-1715)
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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: three Hickes cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1 word list, two Hickes cites in vol. 2. One additional Hickes cite was identified as added in the 1773 Dict. word list, indicated in bold italics below. Per Green in Samuel Johnson's Library, an Annotated Guide, lot 89 in the Sale Catalogue was the "Linguarum Veturum Thesauri, a G. Hickerio, 3 t. 1703." SJ presumably therefore used the 1703 edition. Green notes that v.3 was published in 1705.]
- Institutiones Grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae et Moeso-Gothicae, auctore Georgio Hickesio, ecclesiae anglicanae presbytero, 1689, Oxoniae E Theatro Sheldoniano (per Yale Vol. 18, p.116, this work is referenced by SJ for the chart of "Gothic" languages in the Dict. History of the English Language)
- Linguarum Veturum Septentrionalium Thesaurus Grammatico-Criticus et Archaeologicus 1703-1705, Auctore Georgio Hickesio, S.T.P. Oxonae. E Theatro Sheldoniano. An. Dom. MDCCV; cockney (per Watkins in Johnson and English Poetry before 1660 p. 86, the Anglo-Saxon poem lines and Latin note in the etymology for cockney are from this work; p.231 in Vol. 1 of the 1705 two-volume publication, which Watkins references, which is the same pagination given in Yale Vol. 18 for the 1703 edition) (Per Yale Vol. 18, p.xxi, excerpts from this title are used by SJ in the Dict. History of the English Language, on pp. 143-148, 158-159, and 160-161 of Yale Vol.18. For the MS Bodleian, Digby poem on Yale pp.143-148, an additional likely use of Hickes is mentioned by Daisuke Nagashima in Johnson the Philologist, Kansai University of Foreign Studies Publication, Japan, 1988; two additional lines of the poem are quoted under to boot in the 1755 Dict.)
- The Hervarer Saga, in the Linguarum Veturum Septentrionalium Thesaurus Grammatico-Criticus et Archaeologicus; awaken (pp.193-195 in Vol. 1 of the 1705 two-volume edition, the title of which reads Linguarum Vett. Septentrionalium Thesaurus; quote added in 1773 Dict.) [BKG Note: SJ quotes the opening of the English translation of the Saga; see image below.]
- Hickes (no work cited); chit, girl, lass, scaldhead [BKG Note: SJ cites Hickes in the etymology for each of these words, likely from the Institutiones Grammaticae or the Thesaurus Grammatico-Criticus et Archaeologicus, but the citations have not been located]
