Taken Brack to basics

The binding of a copy of 'Vocabularis rerum' of Wenceslaus Brack sold in a recent West Sussex sale was a 19th century one and now broken, but this was in its time a very popular and much reprinted work.

Arranged by subject rather than alphabetically, it was first published in the 1470s* but among man…

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