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Samuel Johnson Dictionary Authorities also in one or more Lots of SJ Library Sale Catalogue of 1785

Sources for SJ Library Sale Catalogue: The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, with an Introduction and Notes by J.D. Fleeman, University of Victoria (B.C., Canada), 1975; Samuel Johnsons Library, An Annotated Guide, Donald Green, University of Victoria, 1975.
(The catalogue lot may or may not include the cited work of the authority in the Dictionaries. About one-quarter of the Dictionary Word List authorities are represented in the 662 lots of the Sale Catalogue. The Lots are incompletely described in the Sale Catalogue.)

Authorities in SJ Library Sale Catalogue and in Word List
Authority in SJ Dictionary SJ Library Sale Catalogue Lot # (II = # in Appendix II of Fleeman's Sale Catalogue)
(1755 or 1773)
                                                   A
AEn. [Aeneid; Pitt, Christopher] 554
Arbuthnot [John] 273
Aristotle 222, 367, 397, 471, 479, 551
Ascham [Roger] 58, 276
Ayliffe [John] 119
                                                   B
Baxter [Richard]   113, 360, 510, 527, 597
Baxter [William] 17, 37, 257
Beattie [James] 178, 321
Beaumont [Francis]; B. and Fletcher 612
Bible 92, 114, 192, 231, 248, 254, 291, 308, 441, 476, 492, 524, 525, 533, 534, 571, 604, 611, 625, II-1, II-2
Boerhaave [Herman] 80, 142, 398, 438
Boyle [Robert] 30, 562
Bramhall [John] 214
Brown[e] [Thomas] 579,   +47
Budaeus [Guillaume Budé] 606
Builder’s Dict. 46
Burnet [Thomas] 389, 453
Burton [Robert] 472, II-3
[Butler, Samuel] Hudibras; Butler 263
                                                   C
Caius [John Kays] 446
Calvin [Johannes Wetteranus Calvinus] 118
Camden [William] 605
Carter, Mrs. [Elizabeth] 283
Chambers [Ephraim] 487
Chaucer [Geoffrey] 220
Cheselden [William] 125
Cheyne [George] 124
Chillingworth [William] 215, 477
Cicero [Marcus Tullius] 8, 55, 96, 136, 170
Clarke [Samuel] 242, 251
Cowley [Abraham] 154, II-4
Creech [Thomas] 36
Cudworth [Ralph] 70, 548, II-6
                                                   D
Donne [John]; Don. II-7
Dorset [Charles Sackville]; Buckhurst II-13
Drayton [Michael] 356
Dryden [John] 517
Duppa [Brian] II-8
E
Eachard [John] 379
                                                   F
Fiddes [Richard] 212, 355, 599
Fletch, P. [Phineas Fletcher] 361?
                                                   G
Garth [Samuel]    II-13
Gerard [John] 464
Goldsmith, Oliver 129, 269
Goodman [John] 411
Gower [John] 583
Grainger [James] 47
Gray [Thomas] 326
Grew [Nehemiah] 358
                                                   H
Hale [Matthew] 216
Hales [Stephen] 44
Halifax [Charles Montague] II-13
Hammond [Henry]; Ham. 209
Harte [Walter] 275, II-9
Hesychius [of Alexandria] 97
Hickes [George] 89
Hill [John] 272
Homer 202, 292, 410, 416, 434, 478, 498,623
Horace 155, 168, 257, 391, 435, 544, 550, 576
Hoveden (Howden) [Roger of Hoveden] 344
I
                                                   J
[Johnson, Samuel] 177, 494, 644, 649, +47, II-11, II-12
[Jonson, Benjamin] Johnson, Ben 123
                                                   K
Kennet [White Kennett] 38?
                                                   L
Latimer [Hugh] 628
Lawrence, Dr. [Thomas] 401
[Lennox, Charlotte] 64
Locke [John] 601
M
Macbean [Alexander]; 32
Malcolm [Alexander] 589
Marvel[l] [Andrew] 285
Mead [Richard] 56, 259
Menage [Giles] 173
[Minsheu] Minshew [John] 312, 584
More [Henry] 133?
More [Thomas] 133?, 474
Muschenbrock
[Musschenbroek, Pieter van] 145
                                                   N
Newton [Isaac[ 58, 289, 499, 538
Norris [John] II-14
                                                   O
                                                   P
Pearce [Zachary] 431
Pope [Alexander] 271
Q
                                                   R
Ray [John] 27
Reynolds [Joshua] 40, 660
[Richardson, Samuel] 500
Robert of Gloucester 369
Roscommon [Wentworth Dillon] II-13
Rowland[s] [Henry] 33
                                                   S
Salmasius [Claudius];
Saumaise [Claude] 146, 526, 566
Savary [Jacques Savary du Bruslon
and Louis-Philemon Savary] 354, 645
Scaliger [Joseph Justinian] 173
Selden [John] 359, 540, 542
Shakespeare [William] 131, 179, 353, 467, 493, 516
Skelton [Philip] 129
Smart [Christopher] 431
Spelman [Henry] 218
Spenser [Edmund] 268, 596
Stepney [George] II-13?
[Strype] [John] 352
Swift [Jonathan]; Gulliver 267
                                                   T
Taylor [Jeremy] 213, 351, 477
Tickel [Thomas]; Tickle II-13?
U
                                                   V
Virgil 5, 94, 163, 238, 320, 433, 447, 544, 585, 621, 626
                                                   W
Waller [Edmund] II-15
Walsh [William] II-13?
Walton [Izaak] 244
Warburton [William] 21, 131, 377
[Thomas Warton]; 29, 182, 535
Waterland [Daniel] 249
Watts [Isaac]; Wat. 262
Wood [Anthony] 210
Woodward [John]; Woodw. 23
X
                                                   Y
                                                   Z

Authorities in SJ Library Sale Catalogue and in the Dictionary Preface, but not in the Word List
Boccace [Giovanni Boccaccio] 304
Machiavel:[Nicollo Machiavelli] 549

Authorities in SJ Library Sale Catalogue and in the Dictionary History of the English Language, but not in the Word List
Barclay [Alexander] 278
Boethius; Boetius
[Anicius Manlius Severiinus] 295
Alfred [king of the West Saxons
and Anglo-Saxons] 12
Fortesque [John] 216
Lydgate [john] 627

Authorities in SJ Library Sale Catalogue and in the Dictionary Grammar of the English Tongue, but not in the Word List
Lowth [Robert] (4th ed.) 191, 334
Quintilian 79, 622
Smith [Thomas] 48