Chapter XXVII: Appendix: I

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF MANUALS AND GRAMMARS FOR TEACHING FRENCH TO THE
ENGLISH

I

The Middle Ages

_A. Manuscripts_

* Indicates that there are also other manuscripts of later date.

Henry III. (1216-1272):

_c._ 1250 Short Treatise on French Verbs (Trinity College,
Cambridge, R. 3, 56).

Edward I. (1272-1307):

* Le treytyz ke moun sire Gautier de Bibelesworthe
fist a ma dame Dionisie de Mounchensy pur aprise de
langwage (ed. T. Wright, "Volume of Vocabularies,"
1857).

* Tractatus Orthographiae of T. H. Parisii Studentis
(ed. M. K. Pope, "Modern Language Review," April 1910).

_c._ 1300 * Orthographia Gallica (ed. J. Stürzinger,
"Altfranzösische Bibliothek," viii., Heilbronn, 1884).

Edward II. and Edward III. (1307-1377):

Commentaries in French on the Orthographia Gallica
(ed. Stürzinger, _ut supra_).

Epistolaries, or Collections of model letters (MSS.
Harl. 4971, Harl. 3988, Addit. 17716 Brit. Mus.; Ee 4,
20, Camb. Univ. Libr.; B 14. 39, 40, Trinity Col. Camb.;
182, All Souls, Oxon.; 188, Magdalen Col.).

Cartularies, or Collections of Bills, Indentures, etc.
(Harl. 4971; Ee 4, 20, Camb. Univ. Libr.; Addit.
17716).

Undated Vocabularies and Verb Tables and Fragments
on Grammar (Ee 4, 20, Camb. Univ. Libr.; Harl. 4971,
Addit. 17716, Brit. Mus.; 188, Magdalen Col., Oxon.).

_c._ 1340 Nominale sive Verbale in Gallicis cum expositione
eiusdem in Anglicis (ed. Skeat, "Transactions of the
Philological Soc.," 1903-1906).

Richard II. (1377-1399):

Tractatus Orthographiae of Coyfurelly, Doctor in Law
of Orleans (ed. Stengel, "Zeitschrift für
neufranzösische Sprache und Literatur," vol. i., 1878).

1396 * Maniere de Language (ed. P. Meyer, "Revue critique,"
1873).

1399 Petit Livre pour enseigner les enfanz de leur entreparler
comun francois (ed. Stengel, _op. cit._).

_c._ 1409 Donait francois pur briefment entroduyr les Anglois
et la droit language de Paris et de pais la d'entour
fait aus despenses de Johan Barton par pluseurs bons
clercs du language avandite (ed. Stengel, _op. cit._).

Conjugation of Verbs, by R. Dove. Le Donait soloum
douce franceis de Paris (Sloane MSS. 513).

_c._ 1415 Liber Donati (MSS. Dd 12, 23, Gg 6, 44, Camb. Univ.
Libr.; Addit. 17716 Brit. Mus.).

Femina. Liber iste vocatur Femina, quia sicut Femina
docet infantemloqui maternam, sic docet iste liber
iuvenes rethorice loqui Gallicum prout infra patebit
(ed. W. A. Wright, Roxburghe Club, 1907).

1415 Maniere de Language (ed. P. Meyer, "Romania," xxxii.,
1903).

John Lydgate, Praeceptiones linguae gallicae, li. 1.
(Bale, "Scriptores Britanniae," fol. 203.)

_c._ 1500? Dialogues in French and English (MS. Ii. 6, 17, Camb.
Univ. Libr.).

_B. Printed Books_

_c._ 1483 Tres bonne doctrine pour aprendre briefment francoys
et engloys. Printed by William Caxton. B.L. 4to. (Ed.
H. Bradley, "Early English Text Society," extra series,
lxxix., 1900.)

Another edition. Fragment of one leaf in the Bodleian.

_c._ 1492? Here is a good boke to lerne to speke French. B.L.
4to. Colophon: Per me Richardum Pynson.

_c._ 1498? Here beginneth a Lytell treatyse for to lerne
Englisshe and Frensshe. B.L. 4to. Colophon: Here endeth
a lytyll treatyse for to lerne Englysshe and Frensshe.
Emprinted at Westmynster by my Wynken de Worde.

Another edition. Fragment of one leaf in the British
Museum. B.L. 4to.

II

TUDOR AND STUART TIMES

1521 BARCLAY. The introductorie to wryte and to pronounce frenche.

? VALENCE. Introductions in frensche....

1528 Fragment of grammar in Lambeth Library.

1530 PALSGRAVE. Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse.

_c._ 1534 DUWES. An introductorie for to lerne ... french trewly.

_c._ 1535 DUWES. An introductorie for to lerne ... french trewly.

_c._ 1547 DUWES. An introductorie for to lerne ... french trewly.

1552 VERON. Dictionariolum puerorum....

1553? DU PLOICH. A Treatise in English and Frenche....

1553? Traicté pour apprendre a parler françoys et angloys.

1557 G. MEURIER. La Grammaire Françoise. . . .

1557 (BARLEMENT.) A Boke intituled Italion, Frynsshe, Englysshe Latin.

1559 Ane A.B.C. for Scottes men to read the frenche toung....

1563 MEURIER. Communications familieres.

1565 HOLYBAND. The French Schoolemaister.

1566 HOLYBAND. The French Littleton.

1568 (BARLEMENT.) A Boke intituled Ffrynshe, Englysshe and Duche.

1571 A Dictionarie french and english.

1572 HIGGINS. Huloets dictionarie ... the French thereunto annexed.

1573 HOLYBAND. The French Schoolemaister.

1574 BARET. An Alvearie ... in Englishe, Latin and French.

1575 * A plaine pathway to the French Tongue.

1576 LEDOYEN DE LA PICHONNAYE. A Plaine Treatise to larne ... French.

1578 BELLOT. The French Grammer.

1578 DU PLOICH. A Treatise in English and Frenche, new ed.

1578 HOLYBAND. French Littleton.

1578 (BARLEMENT.) Dictionaire . . . en quattre Langues.

? HOLYBAND. French Schoolemaister.

1580 HOLYBAND. A Treatise for Declining of Verbs.

1580 HOLYBAND. De Pronuntiatione Linguae Gallicae.

1580 HOLYBAND. The Treasurie of the French Tong.

1581 BARET. Alvearie ... New ed.

1581 HOLYBAND. French Littleton.

1581 BELLOT. Le Jardin de Vertu.

1582 HOLYBAND. French Schoolemaister.

1583 HOLYBAND. Campo di Fior.

1585 HIGGINS. The Nomenclator or Remembrancer of Adrianus Junius.

1588 BELLOT. The French Methode.

? HOLYBAND. French Schoolemaister.

1590 DE CORRO. The Spanish Grammer with certeine Rules teaching ...
French.

1591 HOLYBAND. French Littleton.

1591 CORDERIUS. Dialogues in French and English.

1592 DE LA MOTHE. The French Alphabet.

1593 HOLYBAND. French Littleton.

1593 HOLYBAND. A Dictionarie French and English.

1593 ELIOTE. Ortho-Epia Gallica.

1595 E. A. Grammaire Angloise et Françoise.

1595 DE LA MOTHE. French Alphabet.

1596 MORLET. Janitrix ... ad perfectam Linguae Gallicae cognitionem.

1597 HOLYBAND. French Littleton.

1598 The Necessary ... Education of a Young Gentlewoman, Italian,
French and English.

1599 HOLYBAND. A Treatise for Declining of Verbs.

1602 A Short Syntaxis of the French Tongue.

1602 HOLYBAND. French Littleton.

1604 SANFORD. Le Guichet François.

1605 SANFORD. A Briefe Extract of the former grammar ... in English.

1605 ERONDELL. The French Garden.

1606 HOLYBAND. French Schoolemaister.

1607 HOLYBAND. French Littleton.

1611 COTGRAVE. A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues.

1612 HOLYBAND. French Schoolemaister.

1615 The Declining of Frenche Verbes (HOLYBAND?).

1615 The French A.B.C.

1615 HOLYBAND. French Schoolemaister.

1617 JEAN BARBIER. Janua Linguarum Quadralinguis.

1618 FARREAR. A Brief Direction to the French Tongue.

1619 LAUR DU TERME. The Flower de Luce.

1619 HOLYBAND. French Schoolemaister.

1620 COLSON. The First Part of the French Grammar.

1623 WODROEPH. The spared Houres of a souldier in his Travels.

1623 J. S. A Shorte Method for the Declyning of Ffrench Verbes.

1625 SHERWOOD. The French Tutour.

1625 HOLYBAND. French Littleton.

1625 DE LA MOTHE. French Alphabet.

1625 WODROEPH. The True Marrow of the French Tongue.

1625 L'ISLE. Part of Du Bartas, French and English.

1625 Grammaire Angloise et Françoise.

1630 HOLYBAND. French Littleton.

1631 ANCHORAN. Comenius's Janua Linguarum.

1631 HOLYBAND. French Schoolemaister.

1631 DE LA MOTHE. French Alphabet.

1632 COTGRAVE. French-English Dictionary, with SHERWOOD'S
English-French Dictionary.

1633 HOLYBAND. French Littleton.

1633 DE LA MOTHE. French Alphabet.

1633 ANCHORAN. Comenius's Janua Linguarum.

1633 SALTONSTALL. Clavis ad Portam.

1633 DE GRAVE. The Pathway to the Gate of Tongues.

1634 SHERWOOD. The French Tutour, 2nd ed.

1634 AUFEILD. A French Grammar and Syntaxe.

1635 COGNEAU. A Sure Guide to the French Tongue.

1636 HOLYBAND. French Schoolemaister.

1636 DU GRÈS. Breve et accuratum grammaticae gallicae Compendium.

1637 (BARLEMENT.) The English, Latine, French, Dutch Scholemaster.

1637 BENSE. Analogo Diaphora ... trium Linguarum, Gallicae, Hispanicae
et Italicae.

1637 ANCHORAN. Comenius's Janua.

1639 DE LA MOTHE. French Alphabet.

1639 HOLYBAND. French Littleton.

1639 Grammaire Angloise et Françoise.

1639 DU GRÈS. Dialogi Gallico-Anglico-Latini.

1639 ANCHORAN. Comenius's Janua.

1639 (BARLEMENT.) New Dialogues or Colloquies ...

1641 MEURIER. A treatise for to learne to speake Frenshe and Englishe.

1641 HOLYBAND. Treatise for Declining of French Verbs.

1641 HOLYBAND. French Schoolemaister.

1643 GOSTLIN. Aurisodinae Linguae Gallicae.

1645 COGNEAU. Sure Guide ...

1647 DE LA MOTHE. French Alphabet.

1648 GERBIER. An Introduction of the French Tongue.

1649 HOLYBAND. French Schoolemaister.

1650 COTGRAVE. French Dictionary.

1651 COGNEAU. Sure Guide.

1652 DU GRÈS. Dialogi ...

1653 MAUGER. True Advancement of the French Tongue.

1655 HOLYBAND. French Schoolemaister.

1655 LAINÉ. A Compendious Introduction to the French Tongue.

1656 MAUGER. French Grammar, 2nd ed.

1658 COGNEAU. Sure Guide.

1658 MAUGER. French Grammar, 3rd ed.

1659 LEIGHTON. Linguae Gallicae addiscendae Regulae.

1660 DU GRÈS. Dialogi ...

1660 COTGRAVE. Dictionary.

1660 HERBERT. French and English Dialogues.

1660 HOWELL. Lexicon Tetraglotton.

1662 MAUGER. French Grammar, 4th ed.

1662 LEIGHTON. ... Regulæ.

1666 Æsop's Fables in English, French and Latine.

? Castellion's Sacred Dialogues ... French and English.

1667 MAUGER. French Grammar, 5th ed.

1667 FESTEAU. French Grammar.

1667 DE LAINÉ. Princely Way to the French Tongue.

1668 HOLYBAND. French Schoolemaister.

1668 Grammaire Françoise et Angloise.

1668 Grammaire Françoise et Angloise.

1670 MAUGER. Grammar, 6th ed.

1671 MAUGER. Lettres françoises et angloises.

1671 FESTEAU. Grammar, 2nd ed.

1673 MAUGER. Grammar, 7th ed.

1673 COTGRAVE. Dictionary.

1674 A French Grammar ... Published by the Academy.

1674 SMITH. Grammatica Quadralinguis.

1674 A very easie Introduction to the French Tongue.

1675 FESTEAU. Grammar, 3rd ed.

1676 D'ABADIE. A New French Grammar.

1676 MAUGER. Grammar (the English edition).

1676 MAUGER. Lettres, 2nd ed.

1677 DE LAINÉ. Princely Way, 2nd ed.

1677 Grammaire françoise et angloise.

1677 MIÈGE. A New Dictionary, French and English.

1678 MIÈGE. A New French Grammar.

1679 MAUGER. Grammar, 8th ed.

1679 FESTEAU. Grammar, 4th ed.

1679 Grammaire Françoise et Angloise.

1679 MIÈGE. Dictionary of Barbarous French.

1680 VILLIERS. Vocabularium Analogicum.

1681 BERAULT. Chemin du Ciel.

1682 MAUGER. Grammar, 10th ed.

1682 MIÈGE. Short and Easie French Grammar.

1683 VAIRESSE D'ALLAIS. Short and Methodical Introduction.

1684 MIÈGE. A Short French Dictionary.

1684 KERHUEL. Grammaire Françoise.

1684 MAUGER. Grammar, 11th ed.

1684 CHENEAU. French Grammar.

1685 FESTEAU. Grammar, 5th ed.

1685 BERAULT. Bouquet . . . de Plusieurs Veritez Theologiques.

1686 MAUGER. Grammar, 12th ed.

1687 Æsop's Fables in English, French and Latine.

1687 MIÈGE. Grounds of the French Tongue.

1688 MIÈGE. Great French Dictionary.

1688 BERAULT. New ... French and English Grammar.

1688 COLSONI. The New Trismagister.

1689 MAUGER. Grammar, 13th ed.

1690 MIÈGE. Short French Dictionary, 3rd ed.

1690 MAUGER. Grammar, 14th ed.

1690 COLSONI. A new Grammar of three languages.

1691 MIÈGE. Short French Dictionary.

1691 BERAULT. Grammar, 2nd ed.

_c._ 1691 LANE. French Grammar.

? GROLLEAU. Compleat French Tutor.

1693 FESTEAU. Grammar, 6th ed.

1693 BERAULT. Grammar, 3rd ed.

1693 Eloquent Master of Languages.

1694 BOYER. Compleat French Master.

1694 MAUGER. Grammar, 16th ed.

1695 COLSONI. New and Accurate Grammar [new edition].

1698 MIÈGE. Last and Best French Grammar.

1698 BERAULT. French and English Grammar.

1698 MAUGER. French Grammar.

1699 MAUGER. French Grammar [new edition].

1699 BOYER. French Master, 2nd ed.

? VASLET. Nomenclator Trilinguis.

1699 BOYER. Royal French Dictionary.