1559 OFFICINA by RAVISIUS TEXTOR antique vellum bound 16th CENTURY dictionary

Officinae Ioannis Ravisii Textoris Epitome. Opus nunc recens post omneis omnium editions . . . tomus I [-II][with his Cornucopiae . . . epitome]by RAVISIUS TEXTOR, Johannes [Jean Tixier de Ravisy] (c. 1470-1542)Lugduni; 1559Full vellum binding with leather tiesSize 4 1/4 by 6 3/4"Good condition except broken back hingeText in Latin========================================Ravisius Textor s principal introductory work on Latin, the Officina, an early ancestor of dictionaries which arranged bits and pieces of Latin writers, continually published and expanded, bound with his Cornucopiae a miscellany on where to find a variety of things. Ravisius Textor was an Erasmian schoolteacher, linguist, scholar, and humanist who flourished in the later part of the 15th century - first in Nivernais, then in Navarre, and finally as rector of the University of Paris in 1520. Textor's Officina is the rich, information-laden precursor of the dictionary, which presented an astonishing variety of Latin textu