Catholicon (trilingual dictionary)

Catholicon (from Greek Καθολικ?ν 'universal') is a 15th-century dictionary written in Breton , French , and Latin . It is the first Breton dictionary and also the first French dictionary. It contains six thousand entries and was compiled in 1464 by the Breton priest Jehan Lagadeuc . It was printed in 1499 in Treguier . A manuscript of the dictionary is preserved in the national library in Paris, identified as Latin 7656.

This Catholicon is referred to by some historians as the Catholicon Armoricum , in reference to Armorica , which is a name for Brittany in Latin . It is a different dictionary than the Catholicon Anglicum , which is an English-Latin dictionary compiled at very nearly the same time in England. The Catholicon Armoricum is also to be distinguished from the Catholicon of John of Genoa , a dictionary dated late 13th century written in Italy.

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Le Catholicon , reproduction of Jehan Calvez's edition (5 November 1499) from a copy at Rennes, edited by Christian-J. Guyonvarc'h, Editions Ogam, Rennes, 1975
- ?do. ?New edition issued by editions Armeline, Brest, 2005
Le Men, Rene-Francois, ed. (1867). Catholicon de Jehan Lagadeuc, dictionnaire breton, francais et latin (in French). Lorient: Editions et impression Corfmat.
Le vocabulaire breton du Catholicon (1499), le premier dictionnaire breton imprime breton-francais-latin de Jehan Lagadeuc , edited by Gwennole Le Menn, (Bibliotheque bretonne; 11.) Imprimerie Keltia Graphic, Edition Skol (Spezet), 2001
Le Menn, Gwennole, ed. (2001). Le vocabulaire breton du Catholicon (1499), le premier dictionnaire breton imprime breton-francais-latin de Jehan Lagadeuc . Bibliotheque bretonne (in French). Vol. 11. Spezet: Edition Skol.
Trepos, Pierre (1964). "Le Catholicon de Jehan Lagadeuc. Pour son cinquieme centenaire" . Annales de Bretagne (in French). 71 (4): 501?552. doi : 10.3406/abpo.1964.2236 . ISSN 0003-391X . Retrieved 5 November 2018 .

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Facsimile edition of the Catholicon

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