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There are some interesting older dedications, like Machiavelli's 32-line toadying exordium to Lorenzo the Magnificent in The Prince . (In Italian it probably ran longer.)
But such acknowledgments do not qualify as dedications in the sense generally understood and in the book at hand in particular.
But not all of the oldies are goodies: Edmund Spenser's dedications of his (nine) books vary from one-liners to some very sleepy sycophancies many times that length.
If one likes this sort of thing, there is no keeping him down, I suppose, and if one must have a collection of dedications, I suppose it ought to be Adrian Room's.
The review of my Bloomsbury Dictionary of Dedications [XVII,4] made no mention of the fact that the quoted dedications are glossed or explicated.