Ambrosii Calepini Dictionarium undecim linguarum iam postremò accurata emendatione, atque infinitorum locorum augmentatione, collectis ex bonorum autorum monumentis, certis & expressis syllabarum quantitatis notis, omniumque vocum significationibus, flosculis, loquendi formis, proverbialibus sententiis caeterisque, ad Latini sermonis proprietatem, elegantiam, & copiam pertinentibus rebus, quanta maxima fide ac diligentia feiri potuit, ita exornatum, ut hactenus studiosorum usibus accommodatius non prodieret. Respondent autem latinis vocabulis, hebraica, graeca, gallica, italica, germanica, belgica, hispanica, polonica, ungarica, anglica. Onomasticum verò; hoc est, Porpriorum nominum, regionum, gentium, urbium, promontorium, marium, stagnorum, fluminum, hominum, et similium catalogum, maxima etiam accessione locupletatum, & praecipuarum rerum Germanica explanatione illustratum, seorsim adjunximus.
Ambrogio Calepino (1435 - 1511)
Category
Books
Date
1605
Materials
Place of origin
Basel
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3130755
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 1582, [2], 302, [12] p. ; fol. Imperfect: wanting title page, blank leaf 3G8 and final leaf TTt8. Provenance: eighteenth-century Jacobean armorial bookplate (Franks 32206), lettered: William Windham Esquire [probably William Windham III (1750-1810)]. With seventeenth-century marginal annotations and underlining of text in black and red ink. Former Felbrigg shelfmark in pencil: L.7 (crossed-out). Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn onto five raised bands; single gilt fillet border; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gilt fillet decoration on spine; brown leather label with gilt title on spine; shell pattern marbled textblock edges and endpapers; nineteenth-century endpapers.
Makers and roles
Ambrogio Calepino (1435 - 1511), author Conrad Gessner (1516-1565), author