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Excerpt from Promptorium Parvulorum Sive Clericorum: Dictionarius Anglo-Latinus Princeps The special subjects to which I have limited my observations in the following preliminary notices may be thus stated. I. The author of the Promptorium, with such traces as may be found of his history or of his literary labors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Promptorium Parvulorum Sive Clericorum: Dictionarius Anglo-Latinus Princeps In producing this first portion of the Promptorium, the Editor, having for various reasons been induced to withhold for the present his more detailed Preface, feels it requisite to offer a few preliminary observations. The present edition is formed upon the text of the Harleian MS. 221, which has been selected as the most ancient, the most correct, and the most copious of the MSS. of which the existence has hitherto been ascertained. The additions that have been made from other MSS., and from Pynson's edition, are numerous; these, as likewise the corrections and various readings, are distinguished from the text by being placed within brackets, with the indication of the sources whence they are severally derived. In a few instances, where the reading of the Harl. MS. appeared so faulty as to justify an alteration of the text, the rejected word has been given in the notes; but more frequently it has been considered preferable to leave the reading of the MS. unaltered, and to give the various reading, which at once suggests the correction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.