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Ambrosii Calepini Dictionarium Octolingue: In Quo Latinis Dictionibus Hebreaeae, Graecae, Gallicae, Italicae, Germanicae, Hispanicae Atque Anglicae Adjectae Sunt. Recensuit, Defoecavit, Auxitque .. Johannes Passeratius ... Adeo ut Nunc, Novum Hoc Opus Novum Nomen Postulet & Iam Non Calepini Dictionarium Sed Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Dici Mereatur.

(Italian, about 1440–1510)
(French, 1534–1602)
1620
Medium/TechniquePrinted book: letterpress in red and black
DimensionsOverall: 41 x 27 x 13.5 cm (16 1/8 x 10 5/8 x 5 5/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of the heirs of Bettina Looram de Rothschild
Accession number2015.55
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ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
Provenance18th century, Christoph Ignatius von Gudenus (b. 1674 - d. 1747) [see note 1]; by descent to Heinrich von Gudenus (b. 1839 - d. 1915), Waidhofen a. d. Thaya, Austria [see note 2]. 1938, Alphonse de Rothschild (b. 1878 - d. 1942) and Clarice de Rothschild (b. 1894 - d. 1967), Vienna; 1938, confiscated from Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild by Nazi forces [see note 3]; probably about 1948, returned to Clarice de Rothschild, New York; by descent to her daughter, Bettina Looram de Rothschild (b. 1924 - d. 2012); about 1990/1992, given by Bettina Looram de Rothschild to members of her family; 2015, gift of the heirs of Bettina Looram de Rothschild to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 25, 2015)

NOTES:
[1] Inscribed "Ex libris Christophori Gudeni".

[2] His bookplate of 1891.

[3] With the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in March, 1938, the possessions of Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild were seized and expropriated almost immediately by Nazi forces. The precise fate of this book during the Nazi era is not known, but it was in the possession of Clarice de Rothschild again following World War II.