Glossarium ad scriptores mediae & infimae Graecitatis, in quo Graeca vocabula novatae significationis ... Accedit appendix ad glossarium mediae & infimae Latinitatis, una cum brevi etymologico linguae Gallicae ex utroque glossario. [Effigies recens cum vetere editione anni 1688 prorsus congruens]
Lugdini: apud Anissonios, Joan, Posuel, & Claud. Rigaud [i.e.Vratislaviae (Wroclaw, Poland): apud Guilelmum Koebner, 1890-91]. Facsimile of the first edition of 1688. Folio, 10 fascicles 1 but with pagination as in the original: pp. [6], xl, [2], 1278 columns; pp. [2], 1279-1794 columns, 214 columns,102 columns, pp. [4], 312 columns; separate pagination for the addenda and omissions, index for authors, and the appendix; original printed front wrappers for the first and last fascicle bound in; publisher's (?) full paneled pigskin in the divinity style, fleurs-de-lys blindstamped in the panels on both covers; crack at the bottom of the front joint, some light cracking at spine extremities, "For reference, not to be taken from this room" stickers on both pastedowns, small sticker at base of spine and another in the top corner of the rear pastedown; internally clean, the binding sound. A glossary of medieval and late Greek language. Du Fresne (or Du Cange, 1610-1688) was a member of the great 17th-century group of lay French critics and scholars "who laid the foundations of modern historical criticism ... He was distinguished above nearly all the writers of his time by his linguistic acquirements ... Of his numerous works the most important are the Glossarium ad Scriptores Mediae et Infimae Graecitatis (Lyons, 1688) and the Glossarium ad Scriptores mediae et infimae latinitatis (Paris, 1678), which are indispensable aids to the student of history and literature of the Middle Ages" (EB11, VIII, 627ff). See: Graesse II, 439; Ebert 7908. Item #73715
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