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ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 98
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE IMAGE WAS CHECKED.
The e-rara page image was directly inspected. It verifies a contextual 1704 use of Salary for a banker’s compensation; it is not a SALARY headword, is not claimed as the earliest English occurrence, and does not prove the Latin ancestry or the salt-payment myth.
Present-Day English1704established
salary
A banking-exchange passage in John Harris’s Lexicon technicum uses Salary for the banker’s compensation.
“which is the Salary of the Banker”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Printed book
- YEAR
- 1704
- LOCATOR
- Image [187], banking-exchange passage; e-rara content image 2867251
- REPOSITORY
- ETH-Bibliothek Zürich
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Rar 98 Ex.A GF, content image 2867251
- FACSIMILE
- Linked below
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- Yes
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERsalary ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 15 ↗
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 FORMSalary
“which is the Salary of the Banker”
- INSPECTION DATE
- 2026-08-26
- METHOD
- visual facsimile
- INSPECTOR ROLE
- SET-U editorial review
- EXACT LOCATOR
- Image [187], banking-exchange passage; e-rara content image 2867251
- CLAIM LIMIT
- Verifies a contextual use of Salary for a banker’s compensation in 1704. It does not establish a SALARY headword, the earliest occurrence, the Latin ancestry, or the salt-payment myth.
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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