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Johannes de Janua, also known as John of Genoa or Johannes Balbus, was a Genoese Dominican friar and lexicographer of the medieval period. He compiled the Catholicon, a Latin reference work completed in 1286 that combined a grammar, a dictionary, and an encyclopedia of biblical and moral knowledge....
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Catholicon was an important medieval Latin dictionary; historically notable, but premodern and derivative.
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Johannes Balbus was a Dominican scholar from Genoa who completed the Latin Catholicon in 1286. The work combined a Latin grammar with a substantial dictionary and became an important reference text in late medieval education and clerical scholarship. It was later printed at Mainz in 1460, placing Ba...
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