Lean's collectanea : encyclopedia of proverbs

Author(s)

• Lean, Vincent Stuckey

Bibliographic Information

Lean's collectanea : encyclopedia of proverbs

Vincent Stuckey Lean

Edition Synapse , Thoemmes Press, 2000

• : [set] : Synapse
• : [set] : Thoemmes
• v. 1
• v. 2, pt. 1
• v. 2, pt. 2
• v. 3
• v. 4

Other Title

Lean's collectanea : collections by Vincent Stuckey Lean of proverbs (English & foreign), folk lore, and superstitions, also compilations towards dictionaries of proverbial phrases and words, old and disused

Note

Reprint. Originally published: Bristol : J.W. Arrowsmith ; London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1902-1904

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

"Lena's Collectanea" is a vast collection of proverbs, folklores and superstitions acquired over a lifetime by Vincent Stuckey Lean of Bristol (1820-99). Painstakingly collected and researched during Lean's travels on the Continent and throughout Britain, the 5-volume "Collectanea" is packed with many thousands of entries, helpfully arranged by theme and full indexed. Covering all periods and many countries, the "Collectanea" goes well beyound simply listing proverbs; it includes superstitions, popular customs and saying, proverbial witticims, rhymes and aphorisms; it records death customs, cures for disease, omens and signs, good luck sayings, charms, and more. Lean unearths the provenance of many obscure proverbs, and consults an author's death, this lively work also contains Lean's extensive contributions to "Notes and Queries", "A New Treasury of Similies", and a biographical memoir of Lean by Julia Lucy Woodward. The proverb was at its peak in Britain in Elizabethan times, and Lean's work is particularly authoritative and helpful in illuminating the literature of this era. In addition to English literature departments, it should be of interest to philological and language students, scholars in cultural studies (many proverbs are based on racial, nationalist and class beliefs), oral historians, linguists and folklorists.

Table of Contents

• Vol 1: memoir
• proverbs relating to the United Kingdom and to Localities therein, arranged under the country divisions
• with illustrative and explanatory notes, together with a few English estimates of other nations and places proverbs and popular sayings relating to the calendar and natural phenomena. Vol 2 - Part 1: folklore, superstitions, omens and popular customs. Vol 2 - Part 2: folklore, superstitions, omens and popular customs
• proverbs, by reference to authors using them
• proverbial witticisms and other sayings
• a new treasury of similes
• alliteratives. Vol 3: a compilation towards a dictionary of words and phrases
• phrases - with examples of their use
• English aphorisms, proverbs and proverbial phrases. Vol 4 English aphorisms, proverbs and proverbial phrases
• contributions to "Notes and Queries"
• short memoir of Lean from "Notes and Queries"
• list of authorities
• abbreviations of names and authorities.

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Details

• NCID: BA47360943
• ISBN:
  • 4931444466
  • 1855066424
• Country Code: ja
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Tokyo,Bristol
• Pages/Volumes: 4 v. in 5
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC9 : 388.8
  • LCC : PN6404
  • DC : 398.9
  • NDLC : GD43
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Proverbs