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ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 103
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE IMAGE WAS CHECKED.
The e-rara page image was directly inspected. It verifies a contextual 1704 adjectival use of select for a specially chosen set of syllables; it is not a SELECT headword, is not claimed as the earliest occurrence, and does not prove the Latin morphology or reconstructed ancestry.
Present-Day English1704established
select
John Harris’s NOTES in Musick entry describes a fixed group of six select syllables formerly used to distinguish degrees of sound.
“six select Syllables were formerly used to that purpose, ascending and descending in order, viz. Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Printed book
- YEAR
- 1704
- LOCATOR
- Image [572], left column, NOTES in Musick entry; e-rara content image 2867636
- REPOSITORY
- ETH-Bibliothek Zürich
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Rar 98 Ex.A GF, content image 2867636
- FACSIMILE
- Linked below
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- Yes
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERselect ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 272 ↗
NAMED SOURCELexicon technicum: or, an universal English dictionary of arts and sciences ↗OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
INSPECTED FACSIMILEOPEN OBJECT ↗
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REPEATABLE VISUAL REVIEW
THE INSPECTION LEDGER
OBSERVED FORMselect
“six select Syllables were formerly used to that purpose, ascending and descending in order, viz. Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La”
- INSPECTION DATE
- 2026-08-26
- METHOD
- visual facsimile
- INSPECTOR ROLE
- SET-U editorial review
- EXACT LOCATOR
- Image [572], left column, NOTES in Musick entry; e-rara content image 2867636
- CLAIM LIMIT
- Verifies a contextual adjectival use of select for a specially chosen set of syllables in 1704. It does not establish a SELECT headword, the earliest occurrence, the Latin morphology, or the reconstructed ancestry.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Lexicon technicum: or, an universal English dictionary of arts and sciences
- AUTHOR
- John Harris
- YEAR
- 1704
- PUBLISHER
- Printed for Dan. Brown et al.
- SOURCE TYPE
- digitized primary source
- CITATION KEY
- erara-harris-lexicon-1704