MATERIAL: Printed

TYPE: Book

COMPONENTS: 282 leaves; contemporary limp vellum with calligraphic spine title in ink, remnants of thong ties

CONDITION: Rear cover damaged; contents browned, scattered ink blots and light dampstains, clean tear in one preliminary leaf, blank corner off N1, small hole in gutter of 2A3, minor worming in gutters toward end, ink stain in upper margin of approximately the last 20 leaves.

ITEM ID: 547

Portuguese-Latin Dictionary

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DATE

Year: 1634

Decade: 1630s

Century: 17th (1601-1700)

Scarce first edition of the authoritative Latin-Portuguese dictionary of the 17th century and first half of the 18th, going through a dozen editions by 1750 but suppressed following the 1759 expulsion of the Jesuits from Portugal. The first 6 editions also included Spanish. Manuel Carvalho. PEREIRA, BENTO, S.J. Prosodia in vocabularium trilingue, latinum, lusitanicum et hispanicum digesta, in qua dictionum significatio et syllabarum quantitas expenditur. [4],

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