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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Linguae Latinae Liber Dictionarius Quadripartitus. A Latine Dictionary In Four Parts''}}
===by Adam Littleton===
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}}[[wikipedia:Adam Littleton|Adam Littleton]] (1627 &ndash; 1694) was the most reputable Latin lexicographer in 17th century England. His 1678 edition of ''A Latine Dictionary in Four Parts'' was succeeded by an 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 1693 work, the editors utilized “a manuscript collection of authorities from Roman authors, in three volumes, folio, by John Milton.”<ref>Ibid.</ref>

[[File:LittleLatineDictionary1678Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|300px|<center>Frontispiece.</center>]]
[[File:LittletonLatineDictionary1678Bookplate.jpg|left|thumb|300px|<center>Bookplate of Hen. Tho<sup>s</sup>. Payne M.A., front pastedown.</center>]]
==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Littleton's [Latin] dict. Lat. Eng. 4to." This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]] and later sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. Both 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Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.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> and [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 February 18, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing include the first edition (1678) published in London based on Millicent Sowerby's entry in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson''.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'' (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 5:87-88 [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648133;view=1up;seq=100 [no.4796]].</ref> The volumes no longer exist to verify the edition, but the Wolf Law Library chose to purchase the edition recommended by Sowerby.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in decorative red calf. Includes armorial bookplate of Henry Thomas Payne, M.A. on front pastedown. Previous owners' inscriptions on verso of front free endpaper. Signed "Henry Edmund Hutchinson from Trevor C. G. James, Esq. <illegible>" and "Frank H. Lamb" on the front flyleaf. Front flyleaf also stamped "Pantasaph Monastery Library" and "Franciscan Library, Greyfriars, Walsingham." Purchased from Rooke Books.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157637697426546 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991021479029703196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
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*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/LittletonLinguaeLatinaeLiberDictionarius1678.pdf ''Linguae Latinae Liber Dictionarius Quadripartitus''] (104MB PDF)
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==See also==
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*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]
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