A useful starting point would be La Lexicographie du latin medieval et ses rapports avec les
recherches actuelles sur la civilisation du moyen-age (Colloques Internationaux du CNRS,
DLXXXIX], Paris, 1981 - which has articles on MEDIEVAL lexicography [as well as MODERN
lexicography of medieval Latin]. Standard 'dictionaries' ariund would have included Paias,
Elementarium [difficult to date 11th c, available in early printed eds - a modern edition of c1970
never got very far], Huguccio's Derivationes [never printed], and Giovanni Balbi's [OP] Catholicon
[early printed eds - one was reprinted by Gregg], which is late 13th century [his entry in Kaeppeli's
Scriptores would give one more about him]. Copies of these around in the 14th century - but my
knowledge doesn't extend to what might have been new in the 14th century. Over to others who
may be better informed.
On Tue, 10 Dec 1996 07:29:05 NZST [log in to unmask] wrote:
> From: [log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 07:29:05 NZST
> Subject: Latin dictionaries
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> Would anyone be able to give me a reference to work concerned with
> the existence of Latin dictionaries in the 14th century? Did they
> exist? Were there alternative forms of learning/memorizing word lists,
> apart of course from rotae? I'd be grateful for any information. Thanks.
> Garth Chivalle Carpenter,
> Dept. of English,
> Victoria University of Wellington,
> New Zealand.
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