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An aluearie, or, Quadruple dictionarie : containing foure sundrie tongues, namelie English, Latine, Greeke, and French : newlie enriched with varietie of wordes, phrases, prouerbs, and diuers lightsome obseruations of grammar : by the tables you may contrariwise finde out the most necessarie wordes placed after the alphabet, whatsoeuer are to be found in anie other dictionarie : which tables also seruing for lexicons to lead the learner vnto the English of such hard wordes as are often read in authors, being faithfullie examined, are truelie numbered : verie profitable for such as to be desirous of anie of those languages.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barrett, John, -1578?
- Language:
- English
- French
- Greek, Modern (1453-)
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Dictionaries--Polyglot.
- English language.
- English language--Dictionaries--Early works to 1700.
- Dictionaries, Polyglot.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Penn Provenance:
- Fowller, Edde (autograph)
- Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze (stamp)
- Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 (autograph) (honoree)
- Furness, Horace Howard, Jr. (donor)
- Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 852 unnumbered pages ; 29 cm (folio)
- Other Title:
- Aluearie
- Quadruple dictionarie
- Alvearie, or, Quadruple dictionarie
- Place of Publication:
- Londini : Excudebat Henricus Denhamus typographus, Gulielmi Seresij vnicus assignatus, Anno salutis human 1580.
- Notes:
- Dedication signed: Io. Baretus Cantabrigiensis.
- Edited by Abraham Fleming, whose name appears on 4A1v.
- An expanded edition of: An alvearie or triple dictionarie.
- Imprint from colophon.
- Signatures: A⁸ B-Y⁶ 2A-2Y⁶ 3A-3N⁶ 3O⁴ 4A-4S⁴ 4T⁶.
- The first leaf is blank except for the signature and the last leaf is blank; gathering 4F signed 4D.
- Without pagination.
- Text primarily in double columns.
- First three words of title are xylographic.
- Illustrated woodcut t.p.; woodcut initials and tail-pieces.
- Printed marginalia.
- Register on leaf 4T4v.
- Identified as Early English books, 1475-1640; 950:1 on UMI microfilm.
- Includes indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaves A1 and 4T6 (blanks) wanting; leaf 4T5 (colophon?) wanting; title leaf repaired at outer margin; leaf 4T4 repaired at outer and inner margins.
- Penn Libraries copy has stamp of the of the Magliabechi library of Florence (later incorporated into the present day Biblioteca Nazionale) and a deacession stamp (the letters "MD" stand for "Magliabechianum Duplum").
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd ed.) 1411
- ESTC S122181
- OCLC:
- 56880495
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