Calepino (Ambrogio) Calepinus. Ambrosii Calepini Lexicon, ex optimis quibusque auctoribus collectum, collation: A⁶ B-Z⁸ 2A-3C⁸, title within large woodcut book design, lacking final blank, title with light browning and spotting, X3 a few tiny wormholes and letters lost, extensive portions with paper repairs at upper corner, running through gatherings A-V and TT-3C, with those ff. at beginning and end with larger repairs (including title) while more centrally really only corner tips affected, no text loss apart from to final couple of ff., a few ff. with smaller repairs likewise to lower corner (including title), staining around repairs and some general damp-staining, endpapers renewed, later mottled calf, folio (309 x 203mm.), Venice, Aurelio Pinzi, 1533.

⁂ A Venetian printing of the 'Calepinus', the most famous and widely used Latin lexicon by scholars from the Renaissance well into the 18th century. Appearing in over 200 editions, it is still considered the paramount reference work for historical language research by classical philologists, linguists and historians. Ambrogio Calepino (1435-1511), came from Bergamo and belonged to the Augustinian order.

Literature: EDIT 16 CNCE 8424.