Aalma (dictionary)

The Aalma (or ) is an alphabetical Latin–Old French dictionary based on the Latin Catholicon of John Balbi. It is known from at least fourteen manuscripts with substantial variation between copies. The earliest copy dates from the late 14th century., with correction in . Given the variation in manuscript, the Aalma is more properly a "family of dictionary texts", called the "Aalma series" or "Aalma group".

Compared to the Catholicon, the definitions in the Aalma are much shorter. The fullest manuscript is Paris, BN lat. 13032. The first lemma is () and the last is (). Lat. 13032 contains 331 pages with two columns per page and 36 lines per column. It was published by Mario Roques in 1938. Roques identified "a reduced version" of the Aalma as the basis of the first printed Latin–French dictionary, the ().

List of manuscripts The fourteen known manuscripts are: 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

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