William Bourne, An Almanack and Prognostication for three years 1571-73 (1567)
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Date
1567
Author
William Bourne Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
An almanacke and Prognostication for three yeares that is to saye for the yeare of oure Lord. 1571. and 1572. & 1573. nowe newlye added vnto my late rulles of nauigation, ye was printed iiij. yeres past. Practised at Grausend for the meridian of London by William Bourne student of the mathematicall science
Publication place
London
Publisher
Thomas Purfoote
Transcription source
Bodleian Library; EEBO
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
- cosmography and astrology
- herbal
Summary
(a) Now foloweth the nature of the .xii. signes with their properties;
(b) The nature, course and qualitie of the .vii. lightes or Plantes
(b) The nature, course and qualitie of the .vii. lightes or Plantes
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: (a) Cancer is colde and moist, of the nature of water, flegmatike feminine, of the night septemtionalles, a mouable signe, the house of Luna, the exaltation of Iupiter, of a salte savour, and kepeth of man the breast, stomake, and long. (c1v)
(b) The Moone is lowest of all the Planetes, being colde and moyst, of nature louing, hauing domination ouer the stomake & bely, and of the mother of women, and generally ouer the members of the lefte syde of the body, her metall is siluer, running ouer the whole zodiake in .27. days and .8. houres. (c3r)
sample: (a) Cancer is colde and moist, of the nature of water, flegmatike feminine, of the night septemtionalles, a mouable signe, the house of Luna, the exaltation of Iupiter, of a salte savour, and kepeth of man the breast, stomake, and long. (c1v)
(b) The Moone is lowest of all the Planetes, being colde and moyst, of nature louing, hauing domination ouer the stomake & bely, and of the mother of women, and generally ouer the members of the lefte syde of the body, her metall is siluer, running ouer the whole zodiake in .27. days and .8. houres. (c3r)
STC
417
Other editions
1581: STC 418
Criticisms
Noyes, Gertrude E. "The Development of Cant Lexicography in England, 1566-1785." Studies in Philology 38 (1941 July): 462-79. view record
