This comprehensive dictionary is an indispensable guide to the study of the Latin Middle Ages. The fourth of ten fascicules, the volume presents hundreds of new formations from other languages, including borrowed words recorded in Latin centuries before their appearance in written vernacular sources. Drawing on a rich variety of printed and manuscript sources, the dictionary records the usage of Classical and Late Latin current in the period between the sixth and sixteenth centuries, presenting most fully the medieval developments of the language.

This dictionary is an indispensable guide to the study of the Latin Middle Ages. It records the continuing usage of classical and late Latin in this period (6th-16th centuries), but it presents most fully the medieval developments of the language, drawing on a rich variety of printed and manuscript sources. Many new formations from other languages are revealed--some of the borrowings recorded in Latin centuries before their appearance in written vernacular sources.

This dictionary is an indispensable guide to the study of the Latin Middle Ages. It records the continuing usage of classical and late Latin in this period (6th-16th centuries), but it presents most fully the medieval developments of the language, drawing on a rich variety of printed and manuscript sources.

This dictionary is an indispensable guide to the study of the Latin Middle Ages. It records the continuing usage of classical and late Latin in this period (6th-16th centuries), but it presents most fully the medieval developments of the language, drawing on a rich variety of printed and manuscript sources. Many new formations from other languages are revealed--some of the borrowings recorded in Latin centuries before their appearance in written vernacular sources. Due to the high number of entries for P, this letter will be spread over four fascicules.