Mithridates. De differentiis linguarum tum veterum tum quae hodie apud diuersas nationes in toto orbe terraru[m] in usu sunt
By: Conradi Gesneri tigurini obseruationes
Publisher: Excudebat Froschoverus.
Published: 1555
Place of publication: Anno M. D. LV. Tiguri  [i.e. Zurich]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 78
Subjects: Language and languages; Comparative linguistics
Other titles: Mithridates. De differentiis lingvarvm tvm vetervm tum quae hodie apud diuersas nationes in toto orbe terrarum in usu sunt.; Mithridates.; De differentiis linguarum tum veterum tum quae hodie apud diuersas nationes in toto orbe terraru[m] in usu sunt.; De differentiis lingvarvm tvm vetervm tvm quae hodie apud diuersas nationes in toto orbe terrarum in usu sunt.; Lord's prayer. Polyglot.
Notes: Date of publication printed before place of publication on title page.

Includes the Lord's Prayer in 22 languages in a large folding table.

"De variis lingvis, praesertim in remotissimis terris imperij Tartarici, & Orbis Noui", leaf 70 recto-71 verso includes examples of Asian and New World languages.

Signatures: A-K⁸ (A1, K8 versos blank)

Woodcut initials.

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, G550.

Purchase; 2017; 18-204.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: wanting the large folding plate with the Lord's Prayer in 22 languages; some leaves closely cropped at the foredge, affecting printed marginal notes.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in modern brown bookcloth covered boards.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund.