The Liber elegantiarum by Joan Esteve
Subtitle: a Catalan-Latin dictionary at the crossroads of fifteenth-century European culture
By: edited by Lluís B. Polanco Roig
Contributors: Polanco Roig, Lluís B., editor
Series: Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis. Series in-4o -- 5.; Lexica Latina medii aevi -- 5; Corpus Christianorum -- 5.; Corpus Christianorum -- 5.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: cat
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9782503525860
Subjects: Catalan language; Dictionaries; Latin; Medieval and modern Latin language; Catalan; Style; Lexicography; Humanism
Other titles: Catalan-Latin dictionary at the crossroads of fifteenth-century European culture
Description: "The 'Liber elegantiarum' (Venice 1489), by the Valencian notary Joan Esteve (fl. c. 1442-1487), is an outstanding and quite original product of early humanistic European lexicography. Conceived partly as a bilingual Catalan-Latin dictionary, it by far surpasses this goal to become in addition an epistolary manual and an aid to grammar, besides providing an often picturesque collection of humanist sayings and literary excerpts. Above all it offers dramatic evidence of the multifaceted expansion of Italian humanism and the crucial role played by the brilliant Neapolitan court of the King of Aragon. As a Romance lexicon, Joan Esteve's work is also one of the first great repertories to include the vernacular as a source language (slightly after Tranchedini's 'Vocabolario') and probably the first to be printed, before Palencia's 'Universal Vocabulario' (1490), Nebrija's 'Dictionarium' (c. 1495) or Valla da Girgenti's 'Vocabularium vulgare' (1500)."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [clxxvii]-ccxiii) and index.

Text of the Liber elegantiarum in Catalan and Latin; introductory essay and notes in English.