Rembert Dodoens, A New Herbal or History of Plants (1578)
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Date
1578
Author
Lexicon title
The Englishe Table conteyning the names and syrnames of all the Herbes, Trees, and Plantes, of this present Booke, or Herball
Book title
A Niewe Herball, or Historie of Plantes: wherin is contayned the whole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of Herbes and Plantes: their diuers & sundry kindes: their straunge Figures, Fashions, and Shapes: their Names / Natures / Operations / and Vertues: and that not onely of those whiche are here growyng in this our Countrie of Englande / but of all others also of forrayne Realmes / commonly vsed in Physicke. First set foorth in the Doutche or Almaigne tongue, by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens, Physition to the Emperour: And nowe first translated out of French into English, by Henry Lyte Esquyer
Dedicated to
Publication place
Antwerp and London
Printer
Henry Loë
Publisher
Gerard Dewes
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
herbal
Summary
Substantial, well-illustrated chapters or articles on individual plants in which information appears under headings such as "The Kyndes", "The Description", "The Place", "The Names", "The Nature", "The Vertues", and "The Daunger". The volume closes with four indexes, "Index Latinorum nominum", "Index appellationum & nomenclaturarum omnium Stirpium", "The Englishe Table conteyning the names and syrnames of all the Herbes, Trees, and Plantes, of this present Booke, Or Herball" (about 1315 names in 1212 word-entries), and "A Table wherein is conteyned the Nature, Vertue, and Dangers, of al the Herbes, Trees, and Plantes, of the which are spoken in this present booke, or Herball." The book is translated from Histoire des Plantes (1557), itself translated by Charles de l"Ecluse from Cruydeboek (1554).
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
other languages: Latin
explanations: English
explanations: English
other languages: Latin
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: Of Sothrenwood. Chap. i. The Kyndes. THere be two sortes of Sothrenwood (as Dioscorides sayth) the one called female Sothrenwood, or the great Sothrenwood, the other is the male kinde, or small Sothrenwood, and are both meetely common in this contrie. Abrotonum f?mina. Great Sothrenwood. Abrotonum mas. Small Sothrenwood ...
sample: Of Sothrenwood. Chap. i. The Kyndes. THere be two sortes of Sothrenwood (as Dioscorides sayth) the one called female Sothrenwood, or the great Sothrenwood, the other is the male kinde, or small Sothrenwood, and are both meetely common in this contrie. Abrotonum f?mina. Great Sothrenwood. Abrotonum mas. Small Sothrenwood ...
Alston
XVII.I.83
STC
6984
Other editions
1586: STC 6985 (Alston XVII.I.84);
1595: STC 6986 (Alston XVII.I.85);
1606: STC 2345 (abridged by William Ram; Alston XVII.I.87);
1619: STC 6987 (Alston XVII.I.86)
-1619: STC 6985, 6986, 6987.
The British Library has a copy of R. D.'s 1557 edition annotated by Henry Lyte
1595: STC 6986 (Alston XVII.I.85);
1606: STC 2345 (abridged by William Ram; Alston XVII.I.87);
1619: STC 6987 (Alston XVII.I.86)
-1619: STC 6985, 6986, 6987.
The British Library has a copy of R. D.'s 1557 edition annotated by Henry Lyte
Criticisms
Arber, Agnes. Herbals: Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany, 1470-1670. 1912. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1938. 106-08. view record
Ockenden, R. E. "Apropos of Henry Lyte." Isis 25.1, alt. no. 69 (1936): 135-36. view record
Ockenden, R. E. "Apropos of Henry Lyte." Isis 25.1, alt. no. 69 (1936): 135-36. view record
