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thumb|upright|Title page of the 1508 edition, printed by Aldus Manutius, Venice thumbnail|upright|Portrait of Erasmus by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1523 Adagia (singular adagium) is the title of an annotated collection of Greek and Latin proverbs, compiled during the Renaissance by Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus. Erasmus' repository of proverbs is "one of the most monumental ... ever assembled" (Speroni, 1964, p. 1).

manuscript on the game of chess

16th-century German distillation book