From Ausonius' Schooldays? A Schoolbook and its Relatives
A. C. Dionisotti
Some time ago, pursuing humanistic Greek dictionaries, I was leafing through the volume of plates from Vienna MSS published by Josef Bick in 1930, when my eye caught a plate Latin–Greek dictionary, arranged not alphabetically but topics. and catalogue informed me that there subscription at end, written beginner's then crossed out (Plate I): ‘And so ends, with God's help, dictionary Cicero, me, Conrad Celtes, Poet, monastery Sponheim, year Our Lord 1495 on seventh day October, while Johannes Trithemius Abbot. Praise be to God heaven most glorious.’ On first page volume, Celtes had table contents: Continetur hoc libello: Grammatica greca brevissima, contracta ex diver sis autoribus per C.C. 2 Colloquia et conversaciones grece, quas vulgo apud Latinos Latinum ideoma dicunt (?), cum vocabulario inventas. 3 Vocabularium rerum admirandum grecum, nuper Conrado Celte Hercinia silva druidas inventum . same page, instructions well-known publisher: Aldus meus is add short preface addressed all youngsters Europe who want learn Greek, assured it will fine very useful little book. Various additions are needed Grammar; needs no telling, let him emend as necessary; have accents added, for Celtes' exemplar, books France Germany, were none.
Journal of Roman Studies