Claudius Hollyband

Claudius Hollyband (born Claude de Sainliens; Latin: Claudius a Sancto Vinculo) was a 16th-century French-English linguist, philologist, phonologist, lexicographer and instructor of English, French, Italian and Latin. He was the author of many books and treatises regarding language, including one of the earliest French-English dictionaries, A Dictionarie French and English, published in London in 1593.

A Huguenot refugee from Moulins where he was born in 1534, France, Hollyband arrived in London, England in about 1564 and died in this city in 1594.

Works The French school-master, London, A. Veale, 1573. Reprint: Menston, Scolar Press, 1972 De Pronuntiatione linguae gallicae (1580) : suivi de The French Littleton (1566). Reprint: Geneva, Slatkine Reprints, 1973 Claudii a Sancto Vinculo De pronuntiatione linguae gallicae libri duo, London, Scolar Press, 1974 Campo di Fior, or the Flowery Field of Four Languages (1583) A Dictionarie French and English: published for the benefite of the studious in that language, London, Thomas Woodcock, 1593. Reprint: London, Scolar Press, 1974 The French schoolemaister. Wherein is most plainly shewed the true and perfect way of pronouncinge the French tongue to the furtherance of those who desire to learn it, London, Clement Knight, 1612. Reprint: London, Scolar Press, 1974 The Elizabethan home, Folcroft, Folcroft Library, 1974 The French Littelton: A most easie, perfect, and absolute way to learne the Frenche tongue, London, Scolar Press, 1974 Claude Desainliens, de pronuntiatione lingua Gallicae, 1580, Menston, Scolar Press, 1970 The Pretie and Wittie Historie of Arnalt & Lucenda: translated from B. Maraffi's Italian version of the Greek original, together with the Italian version with certen Rules and Dialogues set foorth for the learner of th' Italian tong... by C. Hollyband, London, Thomas Purfoote, 1575 A Treatise for declining of verbes, which may be called the second chiefest worke of the French tongue, London, G. Miller, 1633