Here are a few more references for the history of Latin dictionaries
in the later Middle Ages. If the ordering of vocabulary for learning
purposes is your interest, it would be worth having a look at
the structure of Firminus Verris' Dictionarius, which develops
clusters of related terms within an alphabetical structure. Huguccio
does something similar, though more randomly. For retaining
vocabulary, the verse grammars and other teaching aids in verse were
common mnemonic tools: see Tony Hunt, Teaching and Learning Latin in
Medieval England, vol. 1, for a lot of this material.
I hope this list will be of some use to someone.
Grubmu"ller, Klaus. "U"berblick u"ber die lateinische
lexikographische Tradition bis zum Ende des 14. Jahrhunderts." In
_Vocabularius Ex quo: Untersuchungen zu lateinisch-deutschen
Vokabularen des Spa"tmittelalters_, 13-44. Mu"nchener Texte und
Untersuchungen zur Deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters, vol. 17.
Mu"nchen: C. H. Beck, 1967.
_La lexicographie au Moyen Age_. Edited by C. Buridant. Lexique,
vol. 4. Presses Universitaires de Lille, 1986.
_Me'thodes et instruments du travail intellectuel en moyen a^ge:
e'tudes sur le vocabulaire_. Edited by Olga Weijers. CIVICIMA Etudes
sur le vocabulaire intellectuel du moyen a^ge, vol. 3. Turnhout:
Brepols, 1990.
Powitz, Gerhard. "Das `Catholicon': Umriss der handschriftlichen
U"berlieferung." In _Litterae medii aevi: Festschrift fu"r Johanne
Autenrieth zu ihrem 65. Geburtstag_, Eds Michael Horgolte and Herr ad
Spilling, 209-23. Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke, 1988.
Tremblay, F. _Bibliotheca Lexicologiae Medii Aevi_. Lewiston,
Queenston, and Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1989. (Lots of
material, but use with care)
Verris, Firminus. _Dictionarius_. Eds B. Merilees and W. Edwards.
Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Medievalis, Series in-4o, Receuil
des lexiques latin-franc,ais du Moyen Age. Turnhout: Brepols, 1994 .
Weijers, Olga. "Les dictionnaires et autres re'pertoires." In
_Me'thodes et instruments du travail intellectuel en moyen a^ge:
e'tudes sur le vocabulaire_, edited by Olga Weijers, 197-208.
CIVICIMA Etudes sur le vocabulaire intellectuel du moyen a^ge, vol.
3. Turnhout: Brepols, 1990.
________. "Lexicography in the Middle Ages." _Viator_ 20 (1989):
139-53.
Peter Binkley
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