Catholicon (Jehan Lagadeuc)
The Catholicon is a Breton - French - Latin dictionary. It is the first dictionary of the Breton and also the French language. It was written by the Breton priest Jehan Lagadeuc until 1464 to help Breton-speaking priests learn Latin and printed in Tréguier in 1499 . It is also an important testimony to Middle Breton, the language level descending Breton from the 11th to the 17th centuries .
A manuscript can be found in the French National Library in Paris under the call number “Latin 7656”.
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- Le Catholicon , reproduction of the edition by Jehan Calvez (original in Rennes) (November 5, 1499), ed. from Christian-J. Guyonvarc'h , Éditions Ogam, Rennes (1975), new edition by éditions Armeline, Brest (2005)
- Catholicon de Jehan Lagadeuc, dictionnaire breton, français et latin , ed. by René-François Le Men, Éditions et impression Corfmat, Lorient (1867)
- Le vocabulaire breton du Catholicon (1499), le premier dictionnaire breton imprimé breton-français-latin de Jehan Lagadeuc , ed. by Gwennole Le Menn, Imprimerie Keltia Graphic, Edition Skol (Spézet), [= Bibliothèque bretonne 11 (2001)]
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernhard Maier : The Celts. History culture and language . P. 79, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8252-4354-8