Hierolexicon, or Sacred Dictionary

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Original title: Hierolexicon, sive Sacrum Dictionarium An alphabetically arranged Neo-Latin encyclopaedic lexicon of ecclesiastical, liturgical, canonistic, and antiquarian vocabulary. Each entry grounds a word in etymologies traced through Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic, then secures it by patristic, conciliar, and canonistic authority, with a signed critical voice (the siglum FR.) adjudicating disputed points. Its governing principle is the criterion of antiquity—that what is prior and descends from the Apostles is truer—so that recovering a word's ancient sense doubles as a Tridentine defence of Catholic rite and Roman primacy against the Protestant Novatores. It includes an appended exegetical treatise, the Antilogiae, seu contradictiones apparentes Sacrae Scripturae, which harmonises the apparent contradictions of Sacred Scripture through a fixed Respondeo. Composed principally in Latin with embedded Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, and Italian, it was completed in manuscript at the author's death in 1672 and issued posthumously at Rome in 1677, edited and expanded by his brother Carlo Magri. 👉 Read our introductory primer, full report, and finding guide here 📜 View the original source file This text was transcribed and translated as part of the ExLatinis project—an effort by Leo to make English translations of every published text in Latin in early modern Europe (between 1450 and 1750) available to the public for free online.

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VJ K.2 1002 905679 Mag. St. Dr. II