[B-Greek] Very portable lexicon
James Ernest
jdemail at charter.net
Wed Nov 5 23:40:22 EST 2003
You can find some info on these in the web catalogs of the Library of
Congress:
http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=hbSearch
and the British Library: http://blpc.bl.uk/
and the Oxford libraries: http://library.ox.ac.uk/.
Dates range from early to late 19th century with printings on both sides
of the Atlantic. Oldest seems to be this:
Greenfield, William, 1799-1831. [from old catalog]
The polymicrian Greek lexicon to the New Testament; in which
the various senses of the words are distinctly explained in
English, London, S. Bagster and sons [1829] vi, 508 numb. col. 10 cm.
I assume what EW has is a revision of this (after the rest of the
Polymicrian series had faded away), but I didn't find reference to
numbered editions.
My apologies to whomever else I beat to the copy of the PGrLex that was
at Bookfinder a couple of nights ago. Fascinating little book. Uses
omicron-upsilon ligature often, occasionally also stigma (e.g., entries
for LHSTHS and PERISTERA), and occasionally a tau consisting of a long
vertical stroke with a hook to the left at the top (e.g., entries
ANETAZW and DIAPARATRIBH). Setting 508 columns of type of this size
(rough guess: 2 or 3 point type on 3 or 4 point leading? --at any rate
it's larger than the type in the compact OED [which, by the way, has no
entry for the adj. "polymicrian"; but it's in Forthright's Phrontistery,
[http://phrontistery.50megs.com/]) must have been an excruciating labor.
Preface says it contains all the words in the GNT except proper names
plus those in "the Various Readings of Griesbach." There was some
traffic on this list earlier [gfsomsel, I believe] regarding the GNT
that it's based on. The preface says the Polymicrian series also
contained a Greek NT concordance. --I bet Bruce Metzger could tell us
some tales about this series... at least it's the sort of thing he would
have noted with careful delight if he ever ran across it.
James
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> How does it compare with my similar-size-and-age "A
> GREEK-ENGLISH LEXICON TO THE NEW TESTAMENT - A New Edition
> With Additions And Alterations - Revised By The Rev. Thomas
> Sheldon Green, M.A. Twenty-third Edition Samuel Bagster And
> Sons Limited?
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