Janua linguarum reserata: . sive, omnium scientiarum & linguarum seminarium: id est compendiosa Latinam & Anglicam, aliasque linguas & artium etiam fundamenta addiscendi methodus: unà cum Januæ Latinatis vestibulo. Autore. cl. viro J.A. Comenio. The gate of languages unlocked: or, a seed-plot of all arts and tongues; ... formerly translated by Tho. Horn: afterwards much corrected and amended by Joh. Robotham: now carefully reviewed by W.D. to which is premised a portal. [...] also, there is now newly added the foundation to the Janua, ... by G.P.
Johann Amos Comenius (1592-1670)
Category
Books
Date
1652
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 3143228
Summary
Bibliographic description
[final leaf = Cc8] . 8vo.. A quotation from Catullus 'Ad Marcum T.C.', and a magic acrostic 'Sator, Arepo, Tenet, Opera, Rotas', in same seventeenth-century hand on separate flyleaves. Bookseller's price code? (seventeenth-century) on t-p, either side of 'London' 'd f'.. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf, boards blind-tooled with fine filets and cornerpieces into unequal compartments. Rebacked, with new endpapers and pastedowns, nineteenth century.
Makers and roles
Johann Amos Comenius (1592-1670) G. P. William Dugard (1606 - 1662) Thomas Horne (1610-1654) John Robotham (fl.1654)