Janua linguarum, or an easie and compendious method and course for the attaining all tongues, especially the Latine : Wherein are Latine sentences one thousand foure hundred, containing all the more usuall words of the Latine tongue, simple and compound: scarce any word being iterated, except for the supplying the sense sometimes. With the English translation of them, and an alphabeticall dictionary, containing not the primitive words only, but also each particle in the sentence. To which is added the supplement of Tim: Poole, together with an index of the English before the Latine. The ninth edition more complete then the former, by the care and study of Th: Horne.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bathe, William, 1564-1614
Other Authors: Poole, Timothy, Horne, Thomas, 1610-1654, Welde, William, Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670
Format: eBook
Language:Latin
English
Published: London : Printed by James Young, and are to be sold by John Clarke junior, at his shop in the porch entring into Mercers Chappell, 1645.
Series:Early English books online.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Item Description:A collection of proverbs in Latin, originally compiled by William Bathe with Spanish translations. The English translation is by William Welde.
With facing title page (A1v) in Latin "Janua linguarum, sive methodus & ratio compendiaria & facilis ad omnes linguas, ad Latinam verò maximè viam aperiens. ... Editio nona, ... Londini, in ædibus Jacobi Young, ann. 1645".
English title page is a cancel.
Earlier editions. of this work are found under William Bathe in STC (2nd edition); it matches the entries for both C5517B (Johan Amos Comenius), and H2812A (Thomas Horne) in WIng 2nd edition and Wing CD-ROM, 1996, which contain no entries for William Bathe.
Parallel Latin and English texts on facing pages.
Signatures: A B-2B 2C⁴.
Includes index.
Reproductions of originals in the Folger Shakespeare Library (reel 2405:3) and British Library (reel 2651:15).
Physical Description:1 online resource ([7], 171, [228] pages)