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==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library== | ==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library== | ||
− | Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as | + | 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Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.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== | ==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy== |
Latest revision as of 13:47, 21 June 2023
by Johann Scapula
Lexicon Græco-Latinum Novum | |
Title page from Lexicon Græco-Latinum Novum, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary. | |
Author | Johann Scapula |
Published | Basileæ: Apud Henricpetrinos |
Date | 1628 |
Edition | Editio ultima, priori locupletior & correctior. |
Language | Greek and Latin |
Pages | 6 leaves, 1856 columns, [124,64,3], 7-190 columns |
Desc. | Folio (34 cm.) |
Location | Shelf M-5 |
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. George Wythe's Library[6] on LibraryThing indicates this without selecting a specific edition. The Brown Bibliography[7] lists the 1628 edition published in Basel based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.[8] 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 available on Flickr. View the record for this book in William & Mary's online catalog.
Full text
- Lexicon Græco-Latinum Novum (172MB PDF)
See also
References
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ Ibid., 271.
- ↑ Ibid., 269.
- ↑ Ibid., 274.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ LibraryThing, s.v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on November 13, 2013.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ E. Millicent Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 5:72 [no.4761].