Garnier: Dictionnaires des 16e et 17e siècles
By ucylggg, on 17 April 2015
The Libray now subscribes to Garnier’s Dictionaries of the 16th and 17th Centuries:
This Dictionaries included are:
• Dictionnaire françois-latin de Robert Estienne, Paris, 1549
• Thresor de la langue françoyse, tant ancienne que moderne de Jean Nicot, Paris, 1606
• A Dictionarie of the french and english tongues de Randle Cotgrave, London, 1611
• Les Origines de la langue françoise de Gilles Ménage, Paris, 1650
• Dictionnaire françois de Pierre Richelet, Genève, 1680
• Essai d’un dictionaire universel d’Antoine Furetière, Amsterdam, 1687
• Dictionaire universel d’Antoine Furetière, La Haye et Rotterdam, 1690
• Dictionnaire étymologique ou Origines de la langue françoise de Gilles Ménage, Paris, 1694
• Le Dictionnaire de l’Académie françoise dedié au Roy, Paris, 1694
• Le Dictionnaire des Arts et des Sciences de Thomas Corneille, Paris, 1694
This is an impressive full-text collection, one that French scholars will surely appreciate. Accessible remotely, logging in with the usual UCL username and password, this platform offers an incredible detailed Advanced search mode, the individual dictionary can be browsed as well so to find that serendipitous word, which will start a lifelong quest into the mysteries of language…