Lexicon Latino-Grecum

Description

Title: Lexicon Latino-Grecum
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1500]
Publication Place: Northern Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of a Lexicon Latino-Grecum. With an epigram of Hubertinus Clericus (Hubertinus de Crescentino), Professor of Rhetoric at Pavia and Milan
Description: In Greek and Latin.
Watermarks, in gutter: similar in general design to Briquet Couronne 4659; two unidentified serpents.
Script: Latin words written in humanistic bookhand; Greek words in a neat Greek minuscule.
First initial for each letter of the Roman alphabet: plain red or blue majuscules, 4- to 2-line. On recto, all Latin words begin with bright blue 1-line initials, on verso all begin with bright red; color scheme reverses on f. 7v to end. Art. 2, f. 1r, in pale red.
Binding: Sixteenth century, Italy (Italo-Greek?). Own endleaves. Unusual sewing through three spine linings, the central one paper. An endband of two joined lines of chain stitching is sewn on a largely exposed leather core. The flush paste boards are held on by the cloth spine linings which extend on either side of them and are glued to them. Covered in brown goatskin with rope interlace crosses and random small tools. Traces of four ribbon ties.
Provenance: Purchased from B. Rosenthal in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. iii + 161 : 203 x 143 (142 x 90) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Dictionaries
Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Hubertinus, Clericus Crescentinas, ca. 1405-1500.
Subject (Topic): Greek language
Latin
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Hubertinus, Clericus Crescentinas, ca. 1405-1500
Greek language > Dictionaries > Latin > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Lexicon Latino-Grecum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.