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I have long been interested in the intersection of manuscript and print culture.  The wonderful 2011 exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago Altered and Adorned was full of fascinating examples. Here is another, which came in recently: It is manuscript biographical dictionary (202 × 163 mm), created in Germany in about 1750, in which the anonymous compiler […]

Ever since (in fact, probably long before) I completed my MA in Lexicography, I have been fascinated by dictionaries, none more so than The Oxford English Dictionary (1884–1928), ‘the greatest treasure-house of any language in the world’ (PMM).  The origins of the OED lie in these two papers, On some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries, read by […]