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Hēsychiou Lexikon. Hesychii Dictionarium, 1530

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Probably printed in Basel in 1530, but there is no specific information about it. In 8°. Half parchment binding. Smooth spine with insert. Black edges. It resumes the edition Hagenoae, in aedibus Thomae Anshelmis Badensis, 1521. Text in Greek only. Woodcut initials. Light reddening and restorations.

Specialist Notes

The Dictionary of Hesychius of Alexandria (probably lived in the 5th century AD) is considered the largest of the Greek lexicons that antiquity has handed down to us; the text includes approximately 51,000 entries, ordered alphabetically. It is a copious list of strange words, forms and expressions, with an explanation of their meaning and often with a reference to the author who used them or to the region of Greece where they were most common, "precious for the quotations of ancient authors and for the numerous dialect glosses". It was first published in 1514 by Aldus.

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