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Johann Scapula LEXICON GRAECOLATINVM w/ Jacob Zwinger HYPOTYPOSIS - Geneva 1619 Johann Scapula LEXICON GRAECOLATINVM w/ Jacob Zwinger HYPOTYPOSIS - Geneva 1619 POB#45393 TITLE: Lexicon Graecolatinvm novvm. In quo ex primitivorum & simplicium fontibus derivata atque composita ordine non minus naturali, quam alphabetico, breviter & dilucide deducuntur / Ioannis Scapulae opera & studio. - Editio ultima, priori locupletior & correctior. AUTHOR: Johann Scapula; Jakob Zwinger PUBLISHER: Geneva: Apvd Philippvm Albertvm DATE: 1619 DESCRIPTION: [1208] pages total (see pagination analysis below). 86-88 lines. Paginated in columns, but many leaves unpaginated. 34 cm Compact FOLIO in 6's. Printer's device on Title page. Head- and tail-pieces; CONDITION NOTES: GOOD, but mis-collated in places, possibly during recasing. COMPLETE. Back 36 leaves of Appendix to second book is transposed with the last 18 leaves of the Index to the first book. Rubbed holes in title page and some back leaves, as well as perhaps as many as five interior leaves. No worming noted. BINDING: Full calf, as recased to style. COLLATION & Pagination: Title page [1-2] Amplissimis [2-4] Lectoribus Graecae [5-8] Verse [9-10] Blank leaf [11-12] Lexicon Graeco-Latinum [13-930] paginated in columns 1-1856. Index Vocabularum... [931-1002] Partial from Alpha to first of Omicron (continues at back) Part of Appendix Eorum [to Zwinger book to follow] ... [1003-1072] paginated in columns 49-188. Graecum Dialectorum Hypotosis by Jakob Zwinger [1074-1146] with elaborate half-title. Appendix Eorum [1147-1171] paginated in columns [1-14] 15-48. Pagination includes half-title leaf. Index Vocabularum... [1172-1208] Partial from last of Omicron to Omega. [Properly collated] signatures: a 6 2 a-z 6 A-Z 6 Aa-Zz 6 AA-GG 6 HH 8 II-RR 6 TT-ZZ 6 AAa 6 [alpha]-[delta] 6 . This volume of two works by two stated authors is complete as published... AF DISCUSSION NOTES: A new Greek lexicon with special emphasis on dialect. Jacob Zwinger's Graecarum Dialectorum Hypotosis, appended as a book of about 180 leaves with a separate title page is a dichotomy of Greek grammar, with a detailed analysis of variations between Attica, Doric, Ionic, and Poetic ancient Greek dialects. Jacob Zwinger was a well known scholar and physician, son of Theodor Zwinger and at the time the editor of his father's Thetarum Humanae Vitae , a comprehensive humanist encyclopedia that makes frequent use of the dialectic analysis presented here. The Zwingers expounded dialectic analysis most importantly to medicine and to travel for scholars and explorers. Speculating here, but it seems as if appending the Hypotosis to Scapula's Lexicon may have been an attempt to graft his work on the large comprehensive encyclopedia...similar perhaps to the way encyclopedia companies occasionally provide a dictionary with the traditional set of A to Z volumes. The printing quality is not fabulous, with frequent substitutions of fonts and changes in running titles. Smears from vibration in the type furniture appear commonly. The missing pages are a mystery, especially since institutional copies (not examined) miss the entire section. BINDING: Full calf, as recased to style. Listing and template services provided by inkFrog