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Comment by Laura Gibbs on January 6, 2009 at 4:48pm

Perfect! I'll get that set up on Wednesday - we will have an integrated search this way (I need to set up a good FreeFind search for the wiki, to give us some more sophisticated searching options) -and if you can manage with just one wiki page per letter of the alphabet, then it will be easy for people to consult quickly. We can always split the content up later to match the pagination in a GoogleBooks scan if that becomes desirable. SUPER.

Comment by Evan der Millner on January 6, 2009 at 4:42pm

Hello Laura:
Here is the Title Page:
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Sylva Latinae Lingvae,
Vocum derivatarum copiam explicans :
Sive
LEXICON JANUALE.
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(from the Opera Didactica Omnia, 1657 )
I suggest a single Wiki page for each letter of the alphabet, and one for the introduction.

If you make the Wiki linked to this one in some way, and then when I finish the job, or if a Google scan eventually comes available, we can get it proof read.

Comment by Evan der Millner on January 6, 2009 at 4:13pm

Sounds good. I'll get back to you later on about how to set it up.

Comment by Laura Gibbs on January 6, 2009 at 3:56pm

Hi Evan, having the Januale available sounds GREAT - although I think we need to have the digital books match the original texts FIRST, then later on we can do a mash-up, so to speak, combining the two books (and at that point perhaps instead of using a Wiki for the "new" combined book, it will be better to do it as a big document that might be rendered as a PDF, printed as a book, etc.).
If we try to combine them now, that is going to make proofreading the Atriale a nightmare, plus it would interfere with the work of people who really want THAT book in particular, and who, for whatever reasons of their own, are not as interested in the Januale. Since the books did originally have different goals and different audiences, I think it makes sense to keep them separate... although the power of digital versions will later give us the option of combining them - either printing the two as one book or doing something more radical, as you have suggested here, of actually integrating them item by item.
Would you like me to set up pages for the Januale at the Wiki? I've got some super-fast tricks that make it pretty easy for me to set up the Wiki pages for you if you would like, and you could be digitizing the Januale while the rest of us are working on the Atriale.
Then, at the end, we can brainstorm about what way(s) it will make the most sense to use the two books separately and/or in combination with each other.
If you want me to do that, just let me know how many pages there are in the main text, and how many pages of front matter, and I'll get the pages set up and ready to go. That would be really nifty, having both books available! Wow!
:-)

Comment by Evan der Millner on January 6, 2009 at 3:45pm

Laura,
I have been thinking about adding in the entries from the Lexicon Januale - I own a 'hard copy'. If I did this, I would place the January entry after the Atrial entry, with an asterisk - what do you think? I think adding the entries from the Lexicon Januale will make this a much more useable text. I don't mind typing out the January dictionary - it is much shorter, and will be a good learning exercise for me.
The only drawback, is proofing it - I'll have to do that myself.

Comment by Laura Gibbs on January 5, 2009 at 11:08pm

Ha ha, my fox likes the grapes of course!

And you are so right about the quirkiness of the Lexicon - I love (LOVE) all the proverbs. So far, every page I happen to have typed has had some good proverb stuff. Non omnes sancti qui calcant limina templi - that was on one of the pages last night! :-)

Comment by Evan der Millner on January 5, 2009 at 8:42pm

p.s the grapes are for your fox.
:)

Comment by Evan der Millner on January 5, 2009 at 8:41pm

I love the quirkiness:
Bibliotheca sine usu ] Murium condimentum, pulveris receptaculum, Libri sine lectore. Tinearum habitaculum.
Evan.

Comment by Mark Hazard on January 2, 2009 at 1:09pm

Ann,
Thanks. I reinserted my name for p. 32 to the Front Page. Should be okay now. Check your beginning and ending catchwords for p. 33.

--MarkH

Comment by Laura Gibbs on January 2, 2009 at 1:04pm

Thanks, Ann - no problem at all there! It looks like no work at all was lost. I updated the front page so it looks like it matches up with the ongoing work. One thing I've been doing is looking over in the right-hand column to see "Most Recent Activity" - another good way to see if someone is working on a page but forgot to update the Homepage table. :-)

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