RT Book
T1 The Liber elegantiarvm: a Catalan-Latin dictionary at the crossroads of fifteenth-century European culture
T2 Lexica Latina Medii Aevi
T2 Corpus Christianorum / Continuatio mediaevalis / Series in-4°
JF Lexica Latina Medii Aevi
A1 Esteve, Joan 1442-1487
A2 Polanco Roig, Lluís B.
A2 Merrilees, Brian 1938-2013
LA English
LA Catalan
LA Latin
PP Turnhout
PB Brepols
YR 2012
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/734858361
AB The 'Liber elegantiarum' (Venice 1489), by the Valencian notary Joan Esteve (fl. c. 1442-1487), is an outstanding and quiet 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 multifacetted 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)
NO Literaturverz. S. [CLXXVII] - CCXIII
CN a
SN 978-2-503-52586-0
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