The De Analogia Anglicani Sermonis Liber Grammaticus (1612) by Thomas Tonkis A Transcription of the Original Manuscript with an Introduction, notes and comments

Apart from its being connected to the famous Ben Jonson’s English Grammar (1640) of which it is the main unacknowledged source, many reasons induce to render accessible to the public De Analogia Anglicani Sermonis liber grammaticus (1612) by Thomas Tonkis, a manuscript preserved in the Royal Manuscript Collection of the British Library. Indeed it is the only extant early grammar of English to record connected speech features. Equally important, it reveals diatopic varieties of the language as for instance in the pronunciation section, or in the distribution and in the inflection of irregular verbs which include what were actually Northern or West Midlands variants. Most remarkably, its relevance to the historian of the language is that Tonkis’s grammar is a clear example of multilingual practice in an Early Modern English text.