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Catholicon
The Summa grammaticalis quae vocatur Catholicon, or Catholicon, was completed March 7, 1286 by John Balbi (Johannes Januensis de Balbis) , of Genoa, a Dominican. The Catholicon was a religious Latin dictionary which found wide use throughout Christendom.
Gutenberg completed a Catholicon in 1460 before his famous printing of the Bible.
In an abbey, a catholicon is also the conventual church at the center.
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