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Gr.-8°. Mit 50 Abbildungen. 288 SS. OPp. (guter Erhaltungszustand). "Four hundred years ago, in 1598, a small 444 page book, entitled Adagiorvm graecolatinovngaricorvm Chiliades quinque . in short Adagia - was printed by the Klöß Press in Bártfa, County Sáros in Upper Hungary. This book includes the oldest extant collection of Hungarian proverbs. As stated in the introduction to the readers, it was intended to teach wisdom and to provide help in public speaking. An earlier, lost collection by Miklós Siklósi is mentioned in the introduction but nothing more is known about it. The author of the Adagia was János Baranyai Decsi Csimor (Ioannes Decius Barovius or Baronius). He was born about 1560 in the Transdanubian country town (oppidum) Decs - now a village in County Tolna. Following two Wittenberg graduates, Ádám Tordai and Péter Laskai Csókás, from 1593 on until his death on May 15,1601 he was director - called rector - of the "minor" school (particula) - the predecessor of the later college - of Székelyvásárhely, a country town (oppidum) in Transylvania" (Gyula Paczolay, The first Hungarian proverb collection).