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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.

Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Mandeville cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, one Mandeville cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. One Mandeville cite was identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below.]

• 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." However, the edition of 1727 appears to have the same text, so SJ may have used the 1727 edition.  See Yale Vol. 18, pp. 174-180 for quotation of Mandeville in the Dict. "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, 1725, London, printed for J. Woodman, and D.Lyon; cattle (etym., cited as Mandeville); [BKG Note: an electronic search of the 1727 and several earlier editions did not locate cattle (catele). Dict.: "Mandeville uses catele for price." The glossary of the 1727 edition gives beftyalle for catell and catelle for goods.]; loadstar (cited as Maundeville, Dict.: "more properly as it is in Maundeville, lodestar, from lædan, to lead." 1727 edition text, p.217: lode sterre ).

•  The voyages & travels of Sir John Mandevile, Knight wherein is set down the way to the Holy Land, and to Hierusalem, as also to the lands of the great Caan, and of Prestor John, to Inde, and divers other countries : together with many strange marvels therein. 1677, London: Printed for R. Scott, T. Basset, J. Wright, and R. Chiswel; more (1773 Dict.: "Of India the more and the less." This phrase was not found in the 1725 or 1727 editions. It is a chapter heading in the 1677 edition: "Chap. LII. Of Inde, the More and the Less."  It appears that SJ consulted or recalled the 1677 edition while editing the 1773 Dict.)​
• Mandeville (no work cited); ?cedar
• [BKG Disambiguation Note: the cedar "cite" is in a Miller quote under cedar, and is noted as from "Maundrel in his Travels."  The description of the circumference of a cedar 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] BKG Maundrell, Henry Bio-tweet: 1665-1701; Oxford cleric; Levant Co. Allepo chaplain; described Syria, Lebanon, Palestine life, landscape; died of fever ​

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