Authority Cited: Selden
Author name and dates: John Selden (1584-1654)
BKG Bio-tweet: Jurist; scholar of English, Jewish law; independent-minded MP; Milton: JS “chief of learned men”; library part of Bodleian
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: no Selden cites were identified in the 1755 Dict. 10 Selden cites were identified as added in vol. 2 of the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italics below. In The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimile Edition, ed. Fleeman,1975, item 359 is Selden's titles of honour 1672. Greene in Samuel Johnson's Library, an Annotated Guide, 1975, says that Sale Catalogue items 542 and 540 are likely Latin works by Selden.]
Author name and dates: John Selden (1584-1654)
BKG Bio-tweet: Jurist; scholar of English, Jewish law; independent-minded MP; Milton: JS “chief of learned men”; library part of Bodleian
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: no Selden cites were identified in the 1755 Dict. 10 Selden cites were identified as added in vol. 2 of the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italics below. In The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimile Edition, ed. Fleeman,1975, item 359 is Selden's titles of honour 1672. Greene in Samuel Johnson's Library, an Annotated Guide, 1975, says that Sale Catalogue items 542 and 540 are likely Latin works by Selden.]
- Titles of Honor, By the late Famous and Learned Antiquary John Selden, of the Inner Temple, Esquire, the Third Edition carefully Corrected, with Additions and Amendments by the Author, 1672, London: Printed by E. Tyler, and R. Holt, for Thomas Dring, and are to be sold at the White Lion next Chancery Lane End in FleetStreet; obviously (p.744); opinion (p.743); patriarchship (p.754, patriarchats); point; (p.756); precedency (p.743); rank (p.754); state (p.743); synodick (p.755, synodical in Dict., synodal in text); temporal (p. 755); university (p.754); [BKG Note: The 1st edition of Titles of Honor was 1614, the 2nd edition was 1631. Another 1672 copy with Leigh rather than Dring as publisher was found. Which variant SJ owned or used is unknown. All Selden cites are from five pages near the end of the text.]