Lexikon kata Stoicheiōn
Series: Italian books before 1601 -- roll 371, item 3
Publisher: Dionysius Bertochus
Published: 1499
Place of publication: Modena
Language: lat; grc
Subjects: Greek language; Dictionaries; Latin; Latin language; Greek; Synonyms and antonyms
Work titles: Lexicon Graeco-Latinum
Notes: Title from text incipit (leaf A3r).

Begins (leaf A2r): Bonus Accursius Pisanus uiro litteratissimo ac grauissimo Ioanni Francisco turriano ducali quaestori salutem plurimam dicit.

Colophon to pt. 1 (leaf N7v): Mutinae Impraessum. in aedibus Dionysii Bertochi bonon[iensis]. subterraneis. Anno humanae redemptionis .Millesimo Nonagesimo Nono. Tertiodecimo Kalen. Nouemb. Diuo Hercule estensi. Ferrariae duce imperii habenas gubernante.

The prefatory letter to pt. 2 is dated: tertio nonas Iulias .M.D. [i.e. 5 July 1500].

Quires A-V are known in two settings. In the first setting, the leaves are foliated, and the prefatory letter on A2r begins "... Ioanni Francisco turriano". In the second setting, the leaves are not foliated, and the prefatory letter begins "... Iohanni Fra[n]cisco Turriano". Cf. BM 15th cent.

Part 2 was possibly printed by Bertochus after his move to Reggio Emilia in 1500 or 1501. Cf. BM 15th cent.

Signatures: A-B⁸ C-F⁶·⁸.G-Y⁶ Z⁸ &⁶ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ a-b⁶ c⁸ d-e⁶ f-h⁸ i-m⁶ n⁸; ²a-c⁸ d-e⁶ (A1 blank); A3, H2 signed 'Aii', 'H II' respectively.

Pt. 1: [1], CXXVII, [130] leaves (leaf [1] (1st count) blank); pt. 2: [36] leaves.

Errors in foliation: in pt. 1, V, XXXII-XXXIII, XXXVI-XXXVIII, XLI-XLIII, LXVII, CVIII misnumbered III, XXXVI-XXXVII, XXXIIII-XXXVI, XXXIX-XXXXI, LXVI, and CVII respectively.

Woodcut white-on-black floriated initial on leaf A3r, printer's device (Husung 129) on N8r).

Initial spaces, most with guide-letters.

Text of pt. 1 in double columns, each of 43 lines; pt. 2 in four columns, each of 61 lines.

Part 2 consists of an alphabetical index, by Ambrosius Regiensis, of the Latin words in the Lexicon.

Poem by Lucius Manius on leaf ²e6v.

Errata to pt. 2: leaf ²e6r-v.

Hain, 5814*.

Proctor, 7214.

Goff, C-961.

GW, 7815.

BM 15th cent., VII, 1067 (IB.323330.

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), ic00961000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3526-3527.

From the William Norton Bullard Collection; booklabel of Leo S. Olschki, Florence.

This copy has the secondary setting, without foliation, of quires A-V. Initial spaces not filled ion; without rubrication. Imperfect: leaf e6 in pt. 2 mutilated, affecting text.