Author: Galfrido, Fratre.
Title: PROMPTORIUM PARVULORUM SIVE CLERICORUM, Dictionarius Anglo-Latinus Princeps, Auctore ... Grammatico Dicto, Ex Ordine Fratrum Predicatorum, Northfolciensi, Circa A.D. MDCCCXL Olim ex Officina Pynsoniana Editum, Nunc ab Integro, Commentariolis Subjectis, ad Fidem Codicum Recensuit Albertus Way.
Description: Londini Sumptibus Societatis Camdenensis, 1865. Square 8vo. lxxxvii + 563pp. 3 plates of script including two with red and black lettering. Marginal browning, from the Library of Dr James Bynon, early roan backed marbled boards, gilt lettered spine chipped with loss. ¶ Camden Society. First published in three volumes dated 1843, 1851 and 1865, and here reissued in one volume. Way’s edition of the first English-Latin dictionary contains a discusssion of its authorship, a detailed study of the manuscripts of the work, and a thirty-page bibliographical appendix describing early glossaries, Vocabularies &c. illustrative of the English language and of medieval Latinity.

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