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<dl><dd>158, 95 [i.e. 97, 1] leaves [i.e. 316, 196 p.] ; 33 cm</dd>
<dd>Title is framed in an historiated border featuring at the bottom Hercules Gallicus and the motto Typus eloquentiae; with date 1519 and monogram HF, presumably Hans Franck, who has also provided the publisher's device at the end: And. Car. 1519 HF, with the figure of Occasio, "Brevis consulendi Occasio" with Greek and Hebrew lines as well</dd>
<dd>"Andreas Cartander" (a transitional form of Cratander's name) in a final note comments on another publication of his, Oecolampadius' Greek grammar, but also fails to name Crastone</dd>
<dd>Printed in columns. Numbering of leaves 25-26, 2nd count, repeated. Between the dictionary sections, leaves 1- 24 is text in two languages: [1] Collectio dictionum quae differunt significatu, secundum ordinem literarũ. In Greek: [2] Ammoniou peri omoiōn kai diaphorōn lexeōn; [3] Orbikiou tōn peri to strateyma taxeōn; and, Ta tou e semantika</dd>
<dd>Signatures: a-zAa-Bb⁶Cc⁸A-C⁶D⁸E-Q⁶</dd>
<dd>The dictionary has decorative woodcut initials in Roman and Greek not dissimilar from Holbein (A. and H.) initials used in the publisher's other works. No gamma; eta, lambda inverted H, V; for rho, P, tau, T, chi, X; for D an O!</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Greek language -- Dictionaries -- Latin; Latin language -- Dictionaries -- Greek</div>
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