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Early-18th Century Manuscript Italian-German Travel Dictionary (or, "From A to Zuccheraio")

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Early-18th Century Manuscript Italian-German Travel Dictionary (or, "From A to Zuccheraio")

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[Italy], [c. 1720?]. Period stiff vellum with paper spine; 8vo (102 x 160 mm); pp. 287, closely written Italic and Gothic script, in brown ink, on recto and verso (handwriting becomes increasingly minute as entries progress). Front board stained and cracked; some faint browning along edges of text block, not infringing upon legibility.

Attractive manuscript travel dictionary, with entries in Italian and definitions in German and on Italian paper but with a period German ex-libris inscription. The anonymous author lays the text out comfortably in the beginning, but becomes constrained by space -- at Z, the text becomes dense and the definitions run on from each other.

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Title
Early-18th Century Manuscript Italian-German Travel Dictionary (or, "From A to Zuccheraio")
Author
[manuscript]
Book Condition
Used
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Binding
Hardcover
Place of Publication
[Italy]
Date Published
[c. 1720?]

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Edges
The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Vellum
Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
Verso
The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
Recto
The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
Text Block
Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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