A Briefe Abstract, Exposition, and Demonstration of all Termes, Parts, and Things Belonging to a Shippe, and The Practick of Navigation, 1626 | Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title: A Briefe Abstract, Exposition, and Demonstration of all Termes, Parts, and Things Belonging to a Shippe, and The Practick of Navigation, 1626

ID: 01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0211

Primary Creator: Manwayring, Henry, Sir, (1587-1653)

Other Creators: Crane, Ralph

Extent: 1.0 Items

Forms of Material: Naval art and science - Dictionaries

Languages: English

This volume is a nautical lexicon composed by Sir Henry Manwayring (or Mainwaring).The lexicon, which predates John Smith's Sea-Man's Grammar and Dictionary (1691), includes the first known instances of several terms. This copy, which differs from the 1644 printed edition, was transcribed by Ralph Crane.

Henry Manwayring (or Mainwaring) (1587-1653) was a native of County Shropshire, England. He received a degree from Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1602, and began his nautical career in 1602. He soon turned to piracy against Spanish ships and began a successful reign along the Barbary Coast. After receiving a royal pardon and a knighthood, Manwayring rose through the ranks of the English navy, later serving as the captain of several ships.

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Finding Aid Revision History: Revised by Meg Hixon, June 2016

Other Note: Former Shelfmark: MS Q. 387.2 M38b

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