In 1913, Robert Whitwell, a prolific contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary,[REF] petitioned the British Academy to use the imminent International Congress of Historical Studies to propose a replacement for the standard dictionary of medieval Latin, Du Cange's Glossarium (1678) [REF].
By 1932 the Academy felt that they could usefully publish the first fruits of the project, which appeared in 1934 as the Medieval Latin Word-List from British and Irish Sources;[REF] a Revised Word-List appeared in 1965 [REF].