Dictionarium minus:. a compendious dictionary English-Latin & Latin-English. Wherein the classical words of both languages are aptly rendred. And for the more sufficient direction of students in I. Construing: the divers significations are distinguished, according to different phrases, and tropical or figurative sense is set after the proper and natural. II. Pharsing: the various constructions are specified. III. Making Latines: the termination of the genitive is added to the noun, the infinitive to the verb, and the English neuter is differenced from the active. Also the received names of herbs, plants, &c. are largely inserted, divers proverbs explain'd, and many antiquities illustrated. By Christopher Wase, M.A. Master of the Free-School in Tunbridge.
Christopher Wase (Hackney 1627 - Oxford 1690)
Category
Books
Date
1662
Materials
Measurements
201 x 162 x 62 mm
Place of origin
London
Collection
Townend, Cumbria
NT 3187668
Summary
Bibliographic description
[788] p. ;. 4to. Wants final leaf 5F4. Manuscript annotations, seventeenth-century hand. Provenance: seventeenth?-century inscription on title page and Advertisements: John Potter. Inscription on verso of 'Compendium Calepini' title leaf: Gulielmus Chamley non liber meus milessimo" and on 4T3r "Wm Chamley. William Chamley"; same name of P4v. Inscription on 2C4v: 'Johnnnnnnnnnnnn Robson ... ". Inscription on 2Sr: "John Crosby is my name and England is my nation. London is my dwelling place, Heaven I hope my habitation. Scrtum par me Johannem Crosby". Inscription on 5B5v: "Thomas Dixon book 171[7?]". Eighteenth-century inscription on endpapers: "[obliterated text] two hundreth and fifty eight pence in a price[?] William Charnley 1738". Writing practice on recto of imprimatur (facing): William Chamley and John Chamley. Late eighteenth- or nineteenth-century inscription on final pastedown: Robert Collinson Tollbarroy[?]' and inverted inscription 'George Guard[?]'Binding: seventeenth-century full calf. Disbound, all leaves loose.
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Christopher Wase (Hackney 1627 - Oxford 1690)