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The Sources of the Etymologicum Anglicanum (1743) by Franciscus Junius

FranciscusJunius (1591-1677) was a Dutchman who through his textual and lexicographical scholarship "laid the foundations of Germanic philology" (Bennett 1938, 25). He wrote the first Gothic dictionary (1665), and his edition of the poems now known as Genesis A, Genesis B, Exodus, Daniel, and Christ and Satan (1655), 1 for which he drew on an "unsurpassed" knowledge of Old English, was the earliest printing of these texts (Bennett 1938, 24). His Etymologicum Anglicanum served as a principal source for SamuelJohnson's etymologies (1755) and remained a respected authority on English etymology well into the 19th century (Weekley 1931, 63). The manuscript ofJunius's Dictionarium Saxonicum, "one of the greatest lexicographical projects ever planned and accomplished by one man," was the basis of Edward Lye's Dictionarium Saxonicoet Gothico-Latinum (1772) and thus "became the unacknowledged ancestor of subsequent Anglo-Saxon dictionaries" (Bennett 1938, 30) .Junius also influenced the future of Germanic studies through his close contact with many scholars of the day. In particular, despite his never having taught a class, he bequeathed a "splendid legacy of learning" to early Anglo-Saxon scholarship at Oxford (Douglas 1951, 64-65). In his Etymologicum Anglicanum, edited long afterJunius's death by Edward Lye in 1743, Junius cites a wide range of sources: dictionaries from all periods, medieval chronicles, scientific monographs, etc. (see Sample 1). Many are mentioned cryptically (see Sample 2 for typical examples of source citations in entries), and the references are therefore hopelessly impenetrable to the modern reader. My study of