Aalma (dictionary)
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The Aalma (or Catholicon français) is an alphabetical Latin–Old French dictionary based on the Latin Catholicon of John Balbi.[1] It is known from at least fourteen manuscripts with substantial variation between copies. The earliest copy dates from the late 14th century.[2] Given the variation in manuscript, the Aalma is more properly a "family of dictionary texts",[3] called the "Aalma series"[1] or "Aalma group".[4]
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Compared to the Catholicon, the definitions in the Aalma are much shorter. The fullest manuscript is Paris, BN lat. 13032.[4] The first lemma is aalma (virge secrete ou sainte) and the last is zucara (succres, une espice).[5] Lat. 13032 contains 331 pages with two columns per page and 36 lines per column. It was published by Mario Roques in 1938.[1] Roques identified "a reduced version" of the Aalma as the basis of the first printed Latin–French dictionary, the Catholicon abbreviatum (c. 1482).[4]
List of manuscripts
The fourteen known manuscripts are:[6]
- Paris, BN lat. 13032
- Paris, BN lat. 17881
- Paris, BN lat. 14748
- Paris, BN lat. 7679
- Exeter, Cath. Libr., 3517
- Salins, BM, MS 44
- Lille, BM, MS 147 (olim 388)
- Metz, BM, MS 510
- Saint-Omer, BM, MS 644
- Troyes, BM, MS 1459
- Angers, BM, MS 417
- Épinal, BM, MS 224
- Metz, BM, MS 1182
- Paris, BN nouv.acq.fr. 24398