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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Lexicon Græco-Latinum Novum: In Quo Ex Primitivorum & Simplicium Fontibus Derivata Atque Composita Ordine Non Minus Naturali, Quàm Alphabetico, Breviter & Dilucidè Deducuntur''}}
===by Johann Scapula===
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|author=[[:Category:Johann Scapula|Johann Scapula]]
|publoc=[[:Category:Basel|Basileæ]]
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|year=1628
|edition=Editio ultima, priori locupletior & correctior.
|lang=[[:Category:Greek|Greek]] and [[:Category:Latin|Latin]]
|pages=6 leaves, 1856 columns, [124,64,3], 7-190 columns
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}}[[File:ScapulaLexiconGraecoLatinum1628InitialCapital.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Initial capital, first page of text.</center>]]Johann Scapula was one of the many authors of Greco-Latin dictionaries during the Renaissance and Baroque eras.<ref>"Jepyfanij Slavynec'kyj's Greek-Slavic-Latin Lexicon: The History, Contents, and Principles Underlying the Composition of Its Greek Portion (Preliminary Remarks)," ''Harvard Ukranian Studies'' 28, no.1/4, RUS' WRIT LARGE: LANGUAGES, HISTORIES, CULTURES: Essays Presented in Honor of Michael S. Flier on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (2006): 269.</ref>  The 1652 edition of his ''Lexicon Graeco-Latinum Novum'' contained about 60,000 lexographic entries.<ref>Ibid., 271.</ref>  Scapula's dictionary follows a principle of clustering semantically similar entries, rather than organizing alphabetically.<ref>Ibid., 269.</ref>  His "famous Greek-Latin dictionary" was utilized by other dictionary authors, notably the Greek-Slavic-Latin Lexicon by Jepyfanij Slavynec'kyj.<ref>Ibid., 274.</ref>  As an (unauthorized) abridgement of a previous dictionary by Estienne, Scapula’s fit into one volume, making it cheaper, easier to handle, and more desirable than other dictionaries at the time. <ref>John Considine, "Ancient Greek among the Eighteenthcentury [sic] Languages of Science: Linnaeus, Dillenius, and the Lexicographical Record," ''International Journal of the Classical Tradition'' 16, no. 3/4 (Sep-Dec 2009): 335.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Scapulae Lexicon. fol.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his grandson [[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]. The precise edition owned by Wythe is unknown. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on November 13, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates this without selecting a specific edition. The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> lists the 1628 edition published in Basel based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 5:72 [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648133;view=1up;seq=84 [no.4761]].</ref> The Wolf Law Library followed Brown's suggestion and purchased the Basel edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in three quarters black calf over cloth covered boards with spine in six compartments with gilt stamped tile and bands. Title page signed "Ex libris Sanforde Balfour." Purchased from Powell's Bookstores, Chicago.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157637697324155/ available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991025476479703196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/ScapulaLexiconGraeco-LatinumNovum1628.pdf ''Lexicon Gr&aelig;co-Latinum Novum''] (172MB PDF)

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
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