Authority Cited: Mandeville; Maundeville
Author name and dates: John Mandeville (1300?-1372)
BKG Bio-tweet: Influential Travels book exists, but perhaps not author; written in Norman French; pub. c.1357-71; SJ uses in etym.
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Author name and dates: John Mandeville (1300?-1372)
BKG Bio-tweet: Influential Travels book exists, but perhaps not author; written in Norman French; pub. c.1357-71; SJ uses in etym.
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- ?Travels of Sir John Mandevile; Watkins in Johnson and English Poetry before 1660 (33, 108) indicates that SJ used the 1725 edition of the Travels based on lines in the Dictionary "History of the English Language:" The Voiage and Travaile of Sir john Mandevile, Kt....., Now publish'd entire from an Original manuscript in the Cotton Library, London, printed for J. Woodman, and D.Lyon, 1725. [BKG Note: an electronic search of the 1727 and several earlier editions did not locate cattle (catele).] See Yale Vol. 18, pp. 174-180 for quotation of Mandeville in the Dict. "History of the English Language."]
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- Mandeville (no work cited); cattle (etym., cited as Mandeville); loadstar (cited as Maundeville); cedar [BKG Note: the cedar "cite" is in a Miller quote under cedar, and is noted as from "Muandrel in his Travels." The description of the circumference of a cdar tree is at p.142 in A journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, A D. 1697. The second edition, in which the corrections and additions, which were sent by the author after the book was printed off, are inserted in the Body of the Book in their proper places. By Hen. Maundrell, M.A. late Fellow of Exeter Coll. and Chaplain to the Factory at Aleppo. 1707, Oxford : printed at the Theater, An. Dom. MDCCVII. And sold by Jonah Bowyer, at the Rose in Ludgate-Street near St. Paul's Church,}