Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Bellengard: Sententiarum Volumen Absolutissimum


Sententiarum Volumen Absolutissimum by Etienne Bellengard (1559)

This is a marvelous book, with almost 600 pages of double columns, full of proverbs organized alphabetically by keywords, with literary sources carefully cited in the margins. The motto on the coverpage is very encouraging: Omnia conando docilis solertia vincit.



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