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combining a Latin dictionary, a thesaurus of synonyms, a phraseology (with excerpts from classical authors) as well as grammar and prosody. The attribution of Barbier to Jacques Vanière (1664-1739) is probably incorrect, especially since at the time of the first editions he was still a child and in any case not yet a Jesuit.
CONDITION REPORT
pp. XXVI, 804. Contemporary full semi-rigid parchment binding with handwritten title on the spine, darkened by time. Parchment missing in some parts, plates and spine. Partially detached front plate. Burnished cuts, widespread blooms. Signs of gora in the upper margin of some pages. Perforated damaged endcaps. Full-page allegorical engraving on the frontispiece designed by Pietro Antonio Novello and engraved by Filippo Ricci, it represents the muses under a winged horse on top of a mountain, two women climbing the mountain and at the base the Scripture holding a book and a pen and Apollo giving a laurel wreath to Scripture. Engraved vignette on the title page and manuscript Ex libris.
FULL TITLE & AUTHORS
Regia Parnassi seu palatium Musarum in quo synonyma, epitheta, periphrases, et phrases poeticæ, ex officina textoris, delectu epithetorum, scala Parnassi, arte poetica, poetic thesaurus, & elegantis poeticis: historiæ explicationes, & fabulæ ex dictionario historico-geographo-poetico excerptæ , alphabetic order continentur. Plurimis tum antiquis, tum modernioribus deorum, heroum, regum, imperatorum ... illustratum. Nec-non Vergilii, Ovidii, Horatii, Lucani, Claudiani ... locupletatum ... Auctore p. V. Soc. Iesu
Venetiis, Ex Typographia Remondiniana, 1754
Jacques Vanière (1664-1739)?/ Francesco Vavassori (1605-1681)? 67069205
