1897-1059 Researching the beginnings of bilingual Polish-English / English-Polish lexicography: Polyglot dictionaries (part 1) Podhajecka Mirosława author University of Opole Correspondence to: Mirosława Podhajecka mira.podhajecka@wp.pl 06 02 2014 Volume 131, Issue 1 2014 67 90 Copyright © 2014 2014 <p>This paper aims to provide a survey of the early polyglot dictionaries which paired Polish with English, based on the premise that the polyglots can be considered as predecessors of bilingual dictionaries proper. Following this rationale, the authoress examines chronologically the first three of the multilingual endeavours: Ambrogio Calepino’s <em>Dictionarium undecim linguarum </em>… (1590), Hieronymus Megiser’s <em>Thesaurus polyglottus: vel, dictionarium multilingue</em> … (1603), and Georg Henisch’s Teütsche Sprach und Weissheit. <em>Thesaurus linguae and sapientiae Germanicae</em> … (1616). 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