1. Introduction Part I: Curiosity 2. Western lexicographers in the lands of the Mongols 3. Curiosity and lexicography from Petrarch to Leibniz 4. The history of lexicography and the history of curiosity Part II: The long sixteenth century 5. The first curiosity-driven wordlists: Rotwelsch 6. The broadening tradition: wordlists of other cryptolects 7. The curiosity-driven lexicography of a whole language: Romani 8.

Weakly codified languages and lexicography in the sixteenth century 9. Curiosity-driven lexicography in the sixteenth century Part III: The long seventeenth century 10. Languages and regional varieties 11. Natural history and lexicography: John Ray and his friends 12. Ray's Collection of English words 13. Ray's German contemporaries and successors 14. Edward Lhuyd: The making of a lexicographer 15. Edward Lhuyd, travelling lexicographer 16.

Edward Lhuyd's Glossography Part IV: The long eighteenth century 17. Polyglot collections from Gessner to Leibniz 18. Witsen, Leibniz, and the turn to Inner Eurasia 19. Strahlenberg and the lexicography of Inner Eurasia 20. Early wordlists of Scandinavian regionalisms 21. Early wordlists of Finnish and Sami 22. Johan Ihre and Swedish lexicography 23. Dying languages 24.

Old Prussian and Polabian 25. Cornish and Manx Part V: Into the nineteenth century 26. Dictionaries of Scottish Gaelic in the century of Ossian 27. Bardic dictionaries: Faroese, Serbian, and Breton 28. Lexicography and national epic in Finland Conclusion: Writing the history of lexicography.