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Re: VMs: Encyclopedia
Hi John, Brian and all
I would like to here add a two cents:
I recommend Du Cange and Calepino, even if they don't strictly answer the question raised:
Du Cange
Calepino
Jean
Koontz John E <John.Koontz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit:
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Brian Tawney wrote:
> Slightly off-topic: Does anyone know of a Medieval European encyclopedia or
> lexicon that groups entries by theme, as opposed to alphabetically? There
> are a few Asian ones (like the Pentaglot), which group all the names of
> birds together, and all the names of farm implements together, and so on.
I know of a Crow Dictionary (first printing 1979) that does. Sometimes
it's very convenient and sometimes it makes me want to scream and tear out
my hair. Oops, too late for that. Fortunately some colleagues have
prepared an alphabetical index.
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