The Liber elegantiarum by Joan Esteve : a Catalan-Latin dictionary at the crossroads of fifteenth-century European culture /

The Liber elegantiarum by Joan Esteve : a Catalan-Latin dictionary at the crossroads of fifteenth-century European culture /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Esteve, Joan, active 1442-1487.
Imprint:	Turnhout : Brepols, 2012.
Description:	ccxiii, 441 p. ; 32 cm.
Language:	Catalan Latin English
Series:	Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis. Series in-4o ; 5. Lexica Latina medii aevi Corpus Christianorum. Series in-4o ; 5. Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis. Lexica Latina medii aevi ; 5.
Subject:	Esteve, Joan, -- active 1442-1487. Esteve, Joan, -- active 1442-1487. Catalan language -- Dictionaries -- Latin. Latin language, Medieval and modern -- Dictionaries -- Catalan. Latin language, Medieval and modern -- Style. Latin language, Medieval and modern -- Lexicography. Lexicography -- Spain -- Catalonia. Humanism -- Italy. Humanism -- Spain -- Catalonia. Humanism -- Spain -- Valencia. Catalan language. Humanism. Latin language, Medieval and modern. Latin language, Medieval and modern -- Lexicography. Latin language, Medieval and modern -- Style. Lexicography. Italy. Spain -- Catalonia. Spain -- Valencia. Dictionaries.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9098942

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Varying Form of Title:	Catalan-Latin dictionary at the crossroads of fifteenth-century European culture
Other authors / contributors:	Polanco Roig, Lluís B.
ISBN:	9782503525860 2503525865
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [clxxvii]-ccxiii) and index. Text of the Liber elegantiarum in Catalan and Latin; introductory essay and notes in English.
Summary:	"The 'Liber elegantiarum' (Venice 1489), by the Valencian notary Joan Esteve (fl. c. 1442-1487), is an outstanding and quite original product of early humanistic European lexicography. Conceived partly as a bilingual Catalan-Latin dictionary, it by far surpasses this goal to become in addition an epistolary manual and an aid to grammar, besides providing an often picturesque collection of humanist sayings and literary excerpts. Above all it offers dramatic evidence of the multifaceted expansion of Italian humanism and the crucial role played by the brilliant Neapolitan court of the King of Aragon. As a Romance lexicon, Joan Esteve's work is also one of the first great repertories to include the vernacular as a source language (slightly after Tranchedini's 'Vocabolario') and probably the first to be printed, before Palencia's 'Universal Vocabulario' (1490), Nebrija's 'Dictionarium' (c. 1495) or Valla da Girgenti's 'Vocabularium vulgare' (1500)."--Publisher's description.

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Call Number:	PC3893.L3 E88 2012
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