The first dictionary of Ancient Greek

Guarino (or Varinus), Favorino, Bishop of Nocera

[Lexikon Barinou Phabōrinou Kamērtos...]. = Dictionarium Varini Phauorini Camertis, Nucerini Episcopi, magnum illud ac perutile multis uariiśque ex autoribus collectum, totius linguæ Græcæ commentarius

Basileae: [Roberto Cheimerino = Winter], 1538. Second edition, folio, pp. [8], 1900 columns, pp. [1]; [210] index; printer's woodcut device on verso of final leaf; lightly ruled in red throughout, woodcut initials and ornaments; scruffy old calf, gilt spine considerably rubbed and worn, joints cracked, cords holding; internally clean with perhaps 100 early and informed annotations in the margins. Armorial bookplate of Sir Edward W. Watkin, Rose Hill, Northenden, the MP and railway entrepreneur. This copy includes the very extensive index which is not in all copies. Guarino (ca. 1450-1537), an Italian Benedictine monk, was one of the most significant 16th-century lexicographers. He was appointed bishop of Nocera in 1514 and is best known for producing the first Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. "In 1523 appeared his Etymologicum magnum, sive thesaurus universae linguae Graecae ex multis variisque autoribus collectus, a compilation which has been frequently reprinted, and which has laid subsequent scholars under great though not always acknowledged obligations" (EB). Adams P-984. Item #72632

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