[Sca-cooks] John de Garlande was Easter observances

[Johnna Holloway]

Maybe this will help.
Thomas Wright, /A Volume of Vocabularies/ (London: Joseph Mayer, 1857) 
pp. 120–138.

Volume two appears pops up in Google Books --- UM copy.
Volume One is what we need.
A Volume of Vocabularies: Illustrating the Condition and Manners of Our 
Forefathers, as Well as the History of the Forms of Elementary Education 
and of the Languages Spoken in this Island from the Tenth Century to the 
Fifteenth
By Thomas Wright
Published by Privately printed, 1857
Item notes: v. 1
Original from Harvard University
Digitized Feb 19, 2008

It's here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=S7MVAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:0l_r60bSWP20G#PPA3,M1

See Chapter VIII beginning on page 120.

John Campbell still seems at work at what he was doing. He's given 
papers but it's listed on his CV as
Article: Preparation of John of Garland's Commentarius: the 
transcription and collation of the unpublished text for submission for 
publication.
Monograph: Preparation of a school text: a critical edition and 
bilingual text with commentary of John of Garland's Dictionarius.

Simenel can be looked up easily now in the Middle English Dictionary too
*simenel* (n.) Also *siminel*, *simnel(le*, *simnele*, *simnille*, 
*cimnel* & (?errors) *sennel*, *sonnel*, *sawnel*.
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=byte&byte=180710609&egdisplay=compact&egs=180715978

Hope this helps and keeps my reputation intact. What would you all do 
without me?

Johnnae


Terry Decker wrote:
> The Dictionarius of Johannes de Garlandia (AKA John de Garlande AKA 
> John of Garland) is a Latin word list of the trades and tradesmen in 
> Paris with an interlinear glossing in Old French. Published in 1220, 
> it is believed to be the oldest use of the word "dictionary" in 
> referring to a list of words and definitions. I do not have access to 
> a copy. My information on simnels from it is through secondary 
> sources. The Dictionary appears to have been reprinted a number of 
> times. About 10 years ago, John Campbell, Ph.D., of the University of 
> South Florida was preparing a text entitled, A Bilingual Edition of 
> the Dictionarius of John of Garland, for publication. There doesn't 
> seem to be any easily accessible edition of the Dictionarius, but 
> Johnnae or one of the other librarians on the list may be able to help 
> us look.