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}}<blockquote> A Latin to English dictionary, being pat I of Adam Littleton's two volume work... In the English-Latine, more words and properties of our language, as now spoken, are set down, by several thousands, than in any other dictionary yet extant. This work is considered a more prescriptive revision of Francis Gouldman's earlier Latin dictionary. </blockquote>
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Adam Littleton was the most reputable Latin lexicographer in 17th century England.  His 1678 edition of his ''A Latine Dictionary in Four Parts'' was succeeded by an even more reputably considered improved edition published at Cambridge in 1693.  <ref>“A New and Copious Lexicon of the Latin Language; Compiled Chiefly from the "Magnum Totius Latinitatis Lexicon" of Facciolati and Forcellini, and the German Works of Scheller and Luenemann by Scheller, Luenemann, F. P. Leverett,” ''The North American Review'' 45, no.97 (Oct. 1837): 339.</ref>  For the purposes of the later published edition, the editors utilized “a manuscript collection of authorities from Roman authors, in three volumes, folio, by John Milton.”  [Ibid.]
  
 
==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
 
==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==

Revision as of 15:30, 16 January 2014

Linguae Latinae Liber Dictionarius Quadripartitus = A Latine Dictionary In Four Parts

by Adam Littleton

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Adam Littleton was the most reputable Latin lexicographer in 17th century England. His 1678 edition of his A Latine Dictionary in Four Parts was succeeded by an even more reputably considered improved edition published at Cambridge in 1693. [1] For the purposes of the later published edition, the editors utilized “a manuscript collection of authorities from Roman authors, in three volumes, folio, by John Milton.” [Ibid.]

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Bound in decorative calf with an attractive engraved frontispiece showing the Bibliotheca Palatina. Contain's previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown of one Henry Thomas Payne. Purchased from Rooke Books.

View this book in William & Mary's online catalog.

References

  1. “A New and Copious Lexicon of the Latin Language; Compiled Chiefly from the "Magnum Totius Latinitatis Lexicon" of Facciolati and Forcellini, and the German Works of Scheller and Luenemann by Scheller, Luenemann, F. P. Leverett,” The North American Review 45, no.97 (Oct. 1837): 339.