Gloss

A Handbook of Eastern Han Sound Glosses

The core of the work is a systematically arranged listing of 2,558 sound glosses and 345 Buddhist transcriptions. Chinese characters in each entry are supplied with Middle Chinese and Eastern Han reconstructed forms.

From Glosses to Dictionaries

This book presents—through a series of nine high quality essays by international scholars—the beginnings of the lexicographic tradition and the appearance of the first mono- and multilingual dictionaries in various language areas across the world, paying particular attention to their dependence on glosses and glossaries. The contributions analyze, on the basis of significant case studies, how dictionaries first emerged in a wide spectrum of cultures, ranging from Greek Antiquity to 9th-century Japan, from Medieval Britain to 15th-century Poland. In this way, the book highlights both similarities and differences among these traditions, and allows a global and comparative approach to the history of lexicography in its earliest phases, a topic which, up until now, has usually been studied only within single languages and cultures.

Department Of Defense Index of Specifications and Standards Federal Supply Class Listing (FSC) Part III September 2005