Lanfranco of Milan, Chirurgia parva Lanfranci, Lanfranco of Milan his Brief (1565)
Full Text
EEBO/TCP
Date
1565
Author
Lanfranke of Mylayne (alternate name for Lanfranco of Milan )
Translator
John Halle (alternate name for John Hall ) Note: 30/09/2005
Lexicon title
Here beginneth the Interpretiue Table vpon Lanfranke hys worke
Book title
A most excellent and Learned Woorke of Chirurgerie, called Chirurgia parua Lanfranci, Lanfranke of Mylayne his briefe: reduced from dyuers translations to our vulgar or vsuall frase, and now first published in the Englyshe prynte by Iohn Halle Chirurgien. Who hath thervnto necessarily annexed. A Table, as wel of the names of diseases and simples with their vertues, as also of all other termes of the arte opened. Very profitable for the better vnderstanding of the same, as other like workes. And in the ende a compendious worke of Anatomie, more utile and profitable, then any here tofore in the Englyshe tongue publyshed. An Historiall Expostulation also against the beastly abusers, both of Chyrurgerie and Phisicke in our tyme: With a goodly doctrine, and instruction, necessary to be marked and folowed of all true Chirurgiens. All these faithfully gathered, and diligently set forth, by the sayde Iohn Halle
Publication place
London
Publisher
Thomas Marshe
Transcription source
EEBO (Henry E. Huntington Library 62128); EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- herbal
- medicine
Summary
A translation of Chirurgia parva with a full glossary at the end.
Language
headwords: English or Latin
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
O1r-h4r
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 20
number: 20
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 283
sample: Sanies, is generally taken for that superfluous liquide substance that floweth from euery vlcer, regularly or otherwyse, or what kynde or qualitie soeuer it be, and as it differeth in coloure, substance, or qualities, so is it knowne and called by seuerall names, (as well as the vlcers from whence it floweth,) As by destinction a pure, Sanies purulens: a sordite, Sanies sordida, or filthy matter: a Viro uirulens, or venemous. But thou shalt perceiue Lanfranke alwaies (for the most part,) to meane by Saniem, the same quitture, whyte and thicke to beholde, light to touche, and equall, or eche waye lyke to it selfe, and not stinkyng: whiche Galen calleth Pus audabile, and we good or well digested matter. But in apostemes otherwyse as before.
number: 283
sample: Sanies, is generally taken for that superfluous liquide substance that floweth from euery vlcer, regularly or otherwyse, or what kynde or qualitie soeuer it be, and as it differeth in coloure, substance, or qualities, so is it knowne and called by seuerall names, (as well as the vlcers from whence it floweth,) As by destinction a pure, Sanies purulens: a sordite, Sanies sordida, or filthy matter: a Viro uirulens, or venemous. But thou shalt perceiue Lanfranke alwaies (for the most part,) to meane by Saniem, the same quitture, whyte and thicke to beholde, light to touche, and equall, or eche waye lyke to it selfe, and not stinkyng: whiche Galen calleth Pus audabile, and we good or well digested matter. But in apostemes otherwyse as before.
Alston
XVII.I.73
STC
15192
Criticisms
Tyrkkö, Jukka. ""Halles Lanfranke" and its Most Excellent and Learned Expositive Table." Words in Dictionaries and History. Eds. Olga Timofeeva, Tanja Säily, and David Vancil. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2011. 17-39. view record
