Prompt

The Promptus is after Suda one of the first alphabetically structured encyclopedias . It was written in Latin by Dietrich Engelhus between around 1420 and 1430 .

Besides the actual encyclopedia (a language dictionary and encyclopedia property) contains the school use targeted Promptus collecting items and smaller "nests".

See also : History and Development of the Encyclopedia

literature

• Volker Honemann (Ed.): Dietrich Engelhus. Contributions to life and work (= Central German Research , Volume 104). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1991, ISBN 3-412-07091-2 .
  • therein: Nikolaus Henkel: The "Promptus" and its position within the medieval encyclopaedic tradition [... in the late medieval encyclopedia] , pp. 179–202.
  • therein: Volker Honemann: On the sources of the “Promptus” , pp. 203–236.