[B-Greek] old Greek dictionaries
John McChesney-Young
panis at pacbell.net
Sun Sep 24 10:12:03 EDT 2006
At 11:07 PM -0400 9/23/06, Edward Foley wrote:
> ... I am in possession of a Lexicon Graecolatinum
>printed by Ioannes Valderus in Basel Switzerland in September 1537. It has
>a Greek-Latin lexicon portion of 1,910 numbered pages ... I am
>searching for information about the book
>and its source ...
To quote Barry, "Cool!"
It's the work of Conrad Gessner (1516-1565), an amazingly prolific
scholar of broad interests better known today as a naturalist than as
a philologist. Oddly, this dictionary isn't mentioned in his
Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_von_Gesner
but if you check the on-line _Historical Dictionary of Switzerland_
linked at the bottom of that page you'll find reference to it. Note
that he was 20 or 21 when it was published!
There's a longer article on Gessner in German in Herbert Jaumann's
_Handbuch Gelehrtenkultur der Fruhen Neuzeit_ (Berlin : W. de
Gruyter, 2004-), Bd. 1. Bio-bibliographisches Repertorium:
http://tinyurl.com/r4syr (Google Books page view; free but may
require signing in)
That 1537 edition of the dictionary is available for download from Gallica:
http://gallica.bnf.fr/Catalogue/noticesInd/FRBNF37285764.htm
Some of Gallica's books digitized from film aren't very good, but I
hope that the relatively recent date of the fiches they used means
the page images are at least usable.
John
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