Shelfmark
Bf.2.01 - Bf.2.04 (Set 1)
Additional shelfmark
Gk.4.05 - Gk.4.06 (Set 2)
Author
Title
Thesaurus linguae Latinae seu promptuarium dictionum et loquendi formularum omnium ad Latini sermoni perfectam notitiam assequendam pertinentiau: ex optimis auctoribus concinnatum.
Varying form of title
Thesaurus linguæ Latinæ
Publication, distribution, etc.
Lugduni : [Philippe Tinghi?], 1573.
Physical description
4v. ; 40 cm. (Fo.)
Language
Text in Latin with quotations and examples in Greek.
Note
Compiled by R. Estienne and edited by Robert Constantin.
Note
Printer suggested by Adams; Philippe Tinghi signs one of the prefatory letters.
Note
Earliest editions were printed in 1531 or 32, 1536 and 1543; the present edition, the most complete, was used by Henri Estienne to compile his unpublished work -- from Cambridge record.
Note
Pagination: v.1: [12], 713 (ie.728) p.; v.2: [2], 715-1362, [2] p.; v.3: [4], 500, [4], 501-752 p.; v.4: [4], 449, [35] p.
Note
Signatures: v.1: *⁶ a-2x⁸ 2y⁴; v.2: 2*⁴ 2z-4p⁸ 4q¹⁰ (4q10 blank); v.3: 3*² A-2H⁸ 2I¹⁰ 2K-2Z⁸ &⁸; v.4: 3*² Aa-Zz⁸, AA-DD⁸ EE¹⁰ FF-GG⁸.
Note
Errors in pagination.
Note
Vols. 1 and 2 have continuous pagination and register. Vols. 2-4 have title "Thesauri linguae Latinae tomus II[-IIII]".
Citation/references note
Adams, S1822
Citation/references note
Oxford ICC, FF1854
Provenance
(Set 1) Bookplate of Eton College. Topham stamp; bequeathed to Eton by Richard Topham in 1736.
Provenance
(Set 2) Set listed in Eton College Audit Book for 1596-1597 (ECR 62 007, p.396).
Binding
(Set 1) 18th-century blind-stamped rough calf.
Binding
(Set 2) late 16th-century armorial binding; calfskin over pasteboards. Covers decorated with a set of four blind-stamped fillets to form a border; blind-stamped rolls to form two concentric panels; centrepiece is Eton's crest; missing leather clasps. Spine with six sewing supports, decorated with blind fillets and gilt titling over black label ("Stephani thesaurus ling. Lat."); includes former book labels at the tail. Textblock trimmed and dyed red; includes ink titling that suggests vertical storage ("Thesaurus Latinus"). Endpapers of undecorated laid paper; one flyleaf at the upper end of the textblock, two at the lower end.
Copy-specific note
(Set 1) Previously Bg.1.10 - Bg.1.13.
Copy-specific note
(Set 2) 4 v. in 2. Former ECL shelfmarks: Cg.2.7-8; Gh.1.5-6.
Subject
Latin language Dictionaries Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Constantin, Robert, ? - -1605 editor.
Added entry--name
Tinghi, Philippe, ? - -1580 bookseller.
Added entry--place
France Lyon.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B12384