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Author	Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.
Title	Janua linguarum reserata, sive, Omnium scientiarum & linguarum seminarium : id est, compendiosa Latinam & Anglicam aliasque linguas & artium etiam fundamenta addiscendi methodus, unà cum Januae Latinitatis vestibulo / autore cl. viro J.A. Comenio = The gate of languages unlocked, or, A seed-plot of all arts and tongues : containing a ready way to learn the Latine and English tongue / formerly translated by Tho. Horn ; afterwards much corrected and amended by Joh. Robotham ; now carefully reviewed by W.D., to which is premised a Portal ; as also, there is now newly added the Foundation to the Janua, containing all or the chiefe primitives of the Latine tongue, drawn into sentences, in an alphabeticall order by G.P.
Publication Info.	London : Printed by Edw. Griffin, and Wil. Hunt, for Thomas Slater and are to be sold by the Company of Stationers, 1652.

Location	Call No.	Status
Rare Books Winthrop	Win 72	IN LIBRARY

Description	[414] p., [1] leaf of plates : 1 port. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Note	Parallel text in Latin and English.
	"'W.D' = William Dugard." -ESTC.
	Portrait of Comenius at age 50 on page opposite t.p.
	"Januae Latinitatis fundamentum": p. [3]-[46].
	"Januae Latinitatis vestibulum": p. [53]-[74].
	Includes indexes.
	Signatures: A-2B⁸ 2C⁸(-2C8).
Indexed In:	ESTC R231615
	Wing (2nd ed., 1994) C5515
Local Note	Library copy from the Winthrop Collection. Imperfect, lacking the frontispiece and the final leaf. Disbound; title page torn, affecting content. Annotations (letters and numbers, possibly a crude monogram) and No. 147 in ink on t.p.; letter W in ink on foredge.
Subject	Latin language -- Conversation and phrase books -- English -- Early works to 1800.
	Latin language -- Readers -- Early works to 1800.
Genre or Form	Annotations (Provenance) -- 17th century.
Added Author	Horne, Thomas, 1610-1654, translator.
	Robotham, John, active 1654, editor.
	Dugard, William, 1606-1662, editor.
	G. P., editor.
	E. G. (Edward Griffin), -1652, printer.
	Hunt, William, active 1647-1660, printer.
	Winthrop, John, 1606-1676, former owner, annotator.
	Winthrop Collection (New York Society Library) ZNS
Added Title	Janua linguarum reserata. English & Latin
	Gate of languages unlocked, or, A seed-plot of all arts and tongues
	Janua linguarum reserata
	Omnium scientiarum & linguarum seminarium

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