A couple of scans of Comenius' useful Lexicon Januale have now appeared online, at Europeana.
The Lexicon Januale is a student level dictionary, that gives the roots of words. Unusually, Comenius designed it so that the student has to write the entire dictionary out by hand, to form full entries for each word. This was a deliberate tactic.
Here is the Lexicon Januale: one of the only student level Latin-Latin dictionaries ever to be published.
The Lexicon Januale is a student level dictionary, that gives the roots of words. Unusually, Comenius designed it so that the student has to write the entire dictionary out by hand, to form full entries for each word. This was a deliberate tactic.
Here is the Lexicon Januale: one of the only student level Latin-Latin dictionaries ever to be published.
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