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• Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Early works to 1600
• Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism

• The Journey of a Book: Bartholomew the Englishman and the Properties of Things (2007), by Elizabeth Keen (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

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• Batman Uppon Bartholome, His Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum: Newly Corrected, Enlarged and Amended, With Such Additions as Are Requisite, Unto Every Severall Booke (London: T. East, 1582), by Bartholomaeus Anglicus, ed. by Stephen Batman, contrib. by John Trevisa
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • 1933 reprint; page images at HathiTrust
• The Myrrour and Dyscrypcyon of the Worlde, With Many Mervaylles and the VII Scyences as Gramayre, Rethorike Wyth the Arte of Memorye, Logyke, Geometrye, wyth the Standarde of Mesure and Weyght, and the Knowlege How a Man Sholde Mesure Londe, Borde, and Tymber, and Than Arsmetryke Wyth the Maner of Accoutes and Rekenynges By Cyfres, and Than Musyke, and Astrnomye, With Many Other Profytable and Plesant Comodytes (London: L. Andrewe, ca. 1527), by Gautier of Metz, trans. by William Caxton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Speculum Doctrinale (in Latin; Venice: H. Liechtenstein, 1494), by Vincent of Beauvais (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speculum Historiale (in Latin; Venice: H. Liechtenstein, 1494), by Vincent of Beauvais (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Image du Monde de Maitre Gossouin: Rédaction en Prose (doctoral dissertation in French; Lausanne: Imprimeries Réunies S. A., 1913), by Gautier of Metz, ed. by Oliver H. Prior (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'Image du Monde de Maitre Gossouin: Rédaction en Prose (in French; Lausanne and Paris: Payot et cie, 1913), by Gautier of Metz, ed. by Oliver H. Prior
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The New Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: or, An Universal System of Useful Knowledge (2 volumes; London: A. Hogg and S. Leacroft, 1778), contrib. by Erasmus Middleton, William Turnbull, Thomas Ellis, and John Davison
  • Volume I (A-H): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (I-Z): multiple formats at archive.org

• Suda lexicon, by Suidas (Lexicographer) (multiple editions)

• The Evolution of English Lexicography, by James A. H. Murray (Gutenberg text)
• On Some Deficiencies in Our English Dictionaries (second edition, 1860), by Richard Chenevix Trench (multiple formats at Google)

• Le Fonti Delle Enciclopedie Latine Del XII Secolo: Saggio Critico (first and only volume published of Primi Studi Sulle Enciclopedie Medioevali, in Italian; Modena: A. Namias, 1897), by Luigi Mario Capelli
  • page images at Gallica
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only