ESTIENNE Henri - SCAPULA Joannes. LEXICON... - Lot 377 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

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ESTIENNE Henri - SCAPULA Joannes. LEXICON... - Lot 377 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay
ESTIENNE Henri - SCAPULA Joannes. LEXICON GRÆCOLATINUM RECENTIS S. ad formam ab Henri Stephano & post hunc a Io. Scapula... s. l., APUD GUILLELMUM LÆMARIUM, 1593. A large volume, in-4, from (8) ff. 1875 col., (91) ff., appendix (52) ff., full contemporary binding in soft vellum, manuscript title on the spine. Traces of laces, cut-out guard page, small attacks in the margin of the title page, first pages and binding in the upper right corner turned up. Freckles and some usual wet spots. Uncommon sixteenth-century edition of Joannes Scapula's Greek lexicon. This Lexicon is the compilation of Henri Estienne's Thesaurus graecae linguae published in 1572. Scapula was accused of plagiarism but his work was more successful than the Thesaurus.
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