The book makes available the earliest surviving text in English of the sixteenth-century Latin grammar generally attributed to William Lily (c.1468 - c.1523), the grammarian, scholar, and first headmaster of St Paul's School. The compilation became, by royal acclamation, the first and only authorized text for the teaching of Latin in grammar schools and remained so until ousted by Kennedy's primer in the first half of the nineteenth century. During this period it had a profound influence not only on the study and teaching of Latin, but on the understanding of grammar and language more generally. Subsequent grammatical treatises in English were influenced by it in shaping grammatical rules and terms, and so too were methods of language teaching. The 1542 version is presented here by Hedwig Gwosdek in a scrupulously and helpfully prepared edition. Dr Gwosdek has prefaced it with chapters on the text's grammatical and pedagogical origins, composition, and subsequent history. She also includes a text on accidence and construction which mainly emerged from the tradition of the English grammatical manuscripts and the early printed grammars. This fascinating work will interest scholars and advanced students of the English Renaissance as well as those interested in the histories of English linguistics, education, and early modern English.

Lily's Grammar of Latin in English: An Introduction of the Eyght Partes of Speche, and the Construction of the Same

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Lily, William

Words, Language & Grammar

Oxford University Press

King Edward the Sixth's Latin Grammar: Latinae Grammaticae Rudimenta; Or, an Introduction to the Latin Tongue for the Use of Schools

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History

Legare Street Press

Hoole's Terminations for Nouns and Verbs: To Which Are Added, Lilly's Rules for the Genders of Nouns and Heteroclites

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Hoole's Terminations For Nouns And Verbs: To Which Are Added, Lilly's Rules For The Genders Of Nouns And Heteroclites (1857)

Literature & Fiction

Hoole, Charles

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

Kessinger Pub

Select Rules Of The Genders Of Nouns And The Heteroclites: And A Select List Of The Praeterperfect Tenses And Supines Of Verbs (1715)

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

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A short introduction of grammar generally to be used. Compiled and set forth for the bringing up of all those that intend to attain to the knowledge of the Latine tongue. (1633)

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EEBO Editions, ProQuest

A supplement to the English introduction of Lily's grammar: ... The whole from Lily's Latin grammar published at Oxford: ... For the use of the School in Exon, ... The fourth edition.

Gale ECCO, Print Editions

Brevissima institutio sev ratio grammatices cognoscendæ, ... Additis subinde observationibus utilissimis, ex Despauterio, Alvaro, Sanctio, Vossio, Busbeio, ... (Latin Edition)

Compendium syntaxis Erasmianæ: or a compendium of Erasmus's syntax; with an English explication and resolution of the rules, ... In usum scholæ ... Lond. The fifth edition, carefully corrected.

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