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Joannes Balbus Januensis - Catholicon
-DeWitt Starnes PA 2353 Ref. 57 - combined the works of Papias + Ugnitio
4 sections devoted to - Orthographia, Ethimologia
Diasintasties, Prosodia.
Its availability, owing to frequent printings, made it one
of the most influential books of the 15th C. The Catholican
is not a classical dictionary; it is medieval.
The Catholicon is a basic source for the Proptorium,
as it seems to have been for most lexicons, Latin +
bilingual in the 2nd half of the 15 C.

Promptorium parvulorum (ca 1440) - our earliest English
Latin dictionary - there are 6 manuscripts + at least
5 early printed editions, dating from 1499 to 1528
Richary Pynson - small folio 115 leaves
Wynkyn de Worde editions - 1510, 16, 28.

Ugucio - Hugo (Hugutio) of Pisa (d. 1210) his dictionary - 1 Magnae
derived largely from Isidore's Origines + Papias
2 Elementarium doctrinae rudimentum (ca. 1060)
Magnae - never printed, though much of it is incorporated
in the Catholicon
Dictionarius (ca. 1220) of John of Garland (12th C) - born in England

British Museum Ecclesiastical History of the English People - Bede 8th C
Historia Britorum 12 C
Anglo Saxon Chronicle 11 C
Historia Anglorum 12 C Henry Huntington
Gesta Regum Anglorum 12 C by William

Catchwords (XII C. on) quire - 4, 6, or more leaves
foliation (XIII C. on)
pagination XV C.)

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