Frontmatter -- 1. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 2. CONTENTS -- 3. INTRODUCTION -- 4. THE LEIDEN GLOSSARY -- 5. THE CORPUS GLOSSARY -- 6. THE ABC-GLOSSARY -- 7. THE LONDON VOCABULARY ( BRITISH MUSEUM ADD MS 32, 246 AND PLANTINMORETUS MS NO. 32, ANTWERP) -- 8. THE VOCABULARY OF NAMES OF PLANTS -- 9. THE MAYER NOMINALE -- 10. THE PICTORIAL VOCABULARY -- 11. THE MEDULLA GRAMMATICE AND THE ORTUS VOCABULORUM -- 12. THE PROMPTORIUM PARVULORUM -- 13. THE CATHOLICON ANGLICUM -- 14. JOHN PALSGRAVE : LESCLARCISSEMENT DE LA LANGUE FRANCOYSE -- 15. THE DICTIONARY OF SYR THOMAS ELYOT -- 16. WILLIAM SALESBURY : A DICTIONARY IN ENGLYSHE AND WELSHE -- 17. ROBERT ESTIENNE AND JOHN VERON : DICTIONARIOLUM PUERORUM TRIBUS LINGUIS LATINA, ANGLICA & GALLICA CONSCRIPTUM -- 18. RICHARD HULOET : ABECEDARIUM ANGLO-LATINUM -- 19. JOHN WITHALS : A SHORTE DICTIONARIE FOR YONGE BEGYNNERS -- 20. THOMAS COOPER : THESAURUS LINGUAE ROMANAE ET BRITANNICAE -- 21. PETER LEVINS : MANIPULUS VOCABULORUM -- 22. A DICTIONARIE FRENCH AND ENGLISH -- 23. JOHN BARET : AN ALVEARIE OR TRIPLE DICTIONARIE, IN ENGLYSHE, LATIN AND FRENCH -- 24. SIMON PELEGROMIUS : SYNONYMORUM SYLVA -- 25. THOMAS THOMAS : DICTIONARIUM LINGUAE LATINAE ET ANGLICANAE -- 26. JOHN RIDER : BIBLIOTHECA SCHOLASTICA -- 27. RICHARD PERCYVALL : BIBLIOTHECA HISPANICA -- 28. JOHN FLORIO : A WORLDE OF WORDES -- 29. A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE RELEVANT WORKS -- 30. AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE WORKS STUDIED