Author
Varinus, Camers, Bishop of Nocera, 1450-1537
Title
Lexikon Barinou Phabōrinou Kamērtos tou tēs Noukairias Episkopou, to mega kai pany ōphelimon, ek pollōn kai diaphorōn bibliōn, hapasēs tēs Hellēnikēs phōnēs hypomnēma. = Dictionarium Varini Phauorini Camertis, Nucerini Episcopi, magnum illud ac perutile multis uariiśque ex autoribus collectum, totius linguæ Græcæ commentarius..
Varying form of title
Parallel title: Dictionarium Varini Phauorini Camertis, Nucerini Episcopi, magnum illud ac perutile multis uariiśque ex autoribus collectum, totius linguæ Græcæ commentarius
Varying form of title
Parallel title: Dictionarivm Varini Phavorini Camertis, Nvcerini Episcopi, magnvm illvd ac pervtile mvltis variiśqve ex avtoribus collectum, totius linguæ Græcæ commentarivs
Varying form of title
Parallel title: Dictionarium Varini Phavorini Camertis, Nucerini Episcopi, magnum illud ac perutile multis variiśque ex autoribus collectum, totius linguae Græcae commentarius
Imprint
Basileae, : [Robert Winter], M.D.XXXVIII. [1538]
Physical description
[8] p., 1900 [ie. 2462] columns, [213] p. ; fol.
Note
In another issue of the same year (Adams P984) the title page is undated.
Note
Printer anglicised from Greek colophon: "En Basileia tēs Germanias, para tō Robertō tō Cheimerinō, etei apo Christogonias [alpha] [phi] [mu] [alpha] [i.e. 1541].
Note
Numerous errors in pagination.
Note
Woodcut vignette (device?) on verso of final leaf and verso of leaf 2L4.
Note
Text in Greek, printed in double columns, with parallel title and preliminaries in Latin.
Note
First part of the title transliterated from the Greek.
Note
Signatures: a⁴, ²a-z⁶, A-Z⁶, 2a-2z⁶, 2A-2K⁶ 2L⁴, [alpha]-[pi]⁶ [rho]⁴ [sigma]⁶.
Note
Woodcut head-piece, woodcut initials.
Bibliography, etc. note
Includes index on final [210] pages with divisional t.p. reading "Indices accuratissimi in Varini Phaborini Lexicon magnum".
Citation/references note
Adams, P985
Citation/references note
CLC, V165
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (19th century) with 13th-century Dean and Chapter seal and inscription “Sarum Cathedral Library.” pasted over Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate with inscription “This book belongs to the library of the Cathedral Church of New Sarum. James Evans, D. D. Librarian. 1817.”
Binding
19th-century tan calf over boards; blind rolls and fillets forming rectangular frame with intersecting lines; spine with four raised bands and blind tooling; blind roll around board edges; blind roll on turn-ins; text block edges stained red; tan leather spine labels with "Phavorini Dictionarium" and "Basil: 1538."
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: wanting index (i.e. all after 2L4).
Subject
Greek language Dictionaries Early works to 1700.
Added entry--name
Winter, Robert, -approximately 1553 printer.
Added entry--uncontrolled related/analytical title
Indices accuratissimi in Varini Phaborini Lexicon magnum
Added entry--place
Switzerland Basel.
B9538
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