View the record for this book in William & Mary's online catalog. Images of the library's copy of this book are available on Flickr. Title page signed "Ex libris Sanforde Balfour." Purchased from Powell's Bookstores, Chicago. The Wolf Law Library followed Brown's suggestion and purchased the Basel edition.ĭescription of the Wolf Law Library's copyīound in three quarters black calf over cloth covered boards with spine in six compartments with gilt stamped tile and bands. The Brown Bibliography lists the 1628 edition published in Basel based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress. George Wythe's Library on LibraryThing indicates this without selecting a specific edition. The precise edition owned by Wythe is unknown. and given by Thomas Jefferson to his grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as Scapulae Lexicon. Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library As an (unauthorized) abridgement of a previous dictionary by Estienne, Scapula’s fit into one volume, making it cheaper, easier to handle, and more desirable than other dictionaries at the time. His "famous Greek-Latin dictionary" was utilized by other dictionary authors, notably the Greek-Slavic-Latin Lexicon by Jepyfanij Slavynec'kyj. Scapula's dictionary follows a principle of clustering semantically similar entries, rather than organizing alphabetically. The 1652 edition of his Lexicon Graeco-Latinum Novum contained about 60,000 lexographic entries.
Initial capital, first page of text.Johann Scapula was one of the many authors of Greco-Latin dictionaries during the Renaissance and Baroque eras.
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