Dictionarium, quanta maxima fide ac diligentia accurate emendatum... Adjectae sunt Latinis dictionibus Hebraeae, Graecae, Gallicae, Italicae, Germanicae, Hispanicae, atque Anglicae... Editio Novissima nunc a R.P. Laurentio Chiffletio ... & supplemento R.P. Joannis-Ludovici de la Cerda...
Lugduni [i.e. Lyon]: FFr. Anissoniorum et Joannis Posuel, 1681. Folio, 2 volumes in 1, pp. [8], 1004; 862; both title pages printed in red and black, and both with printer's woodcut device, woodcut initials and ornaments; contemporary full paneled parchment, central lozenge stamped in blind on both covers, manuscript titling on spine; turn-ins curled, but a good, sound copy of a large and impressive volume. This famous and durable work was first published as a Latin lexicon in Reggio in 1502, and was gradually augmented by a series of editors to include up to ten languages, including English. "During the whole period of the Renaissance scarcely an important dictionary was published which did not reflect directly or indirectly the influence of Calepine" (Starnes). The first edition to contain English equivalents was that of Lugduni 1585, and the present edition is the last according to Alston. Alston II, 99; Labarre 196. Item #42843
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