Neudrucke frühneuenglischer grammatiken: Simon Daines' Orthoepia anglicana (1640), hrsg. von M. Rösler & R. Brotanek

The Neudrucke frühneuenglischer grammatiken series was a scholarly project initiated in the early 20th century to preserve and analyze early modern English linguistic texts. Edited by Margarete Rösler and Rudolf Brotanek, this specific volume focuses on Simon Daines' Orthoepia anglicana, originally published in 1640. The series was designed to provide researchers with reliable, annotated editions of rare grammatical works, filling a critical gap in the study of English language history and phonetics during the transition from the Elizabethan to the Restoration era.

Simon Daines' original work was a pioneering attempt to map the pronunciation and orthography of the English language, reflecting the scholarly preoccupations of the seventeenth century with codifying a standardized vernacular. Rösler and Brotanek’s reprinting effort was grounded in the rigorous philological traditions of their time, aiming to make Daines' often inaccessible text available for comparative analysis. The volume has since served as a staple reference for historians of the English language, valued primarily for its faithful reproduction of early phonetic conventions.