Verancsics, Fausto (1551-1617), bishop of Csanád.

4to (205 x 144mm.), [8], 128pp., illustration: title within woodcut border, woodcut initials and headpieces, manuscript marginalia, binding: eighteenth-century calf, gilt single fillet border, spine gilt in compartments, tiny tears with marginal loss to title-page and O4, lacking lettering-piece

Censimento 16 CNCE 48248; Halasz de Beky 503

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Verancsics, a friend of Tommaso Campanella and Marco de Dominis, was a champion of the Dalmatian language and his dictionary contributed substantially to its orthography. It is also the first substantial Hungarian dictionary (a facsimile appeared in 1971). An interesting aspect of the present copy is that an early reader has begun to include a column headed "Russice" (transliterated) alongside those printed columns headed Latine, Italice, Germanice, Dalmatice and Ungarice.

For another work by Verancsics, see Macclesfield Science P-Z, lot 2045, and for the expanded edition of 1605, see lot 4801.