Leonardo Fioravanti, Master Leonardo Phioravanti Bolognese upon Chirurgery (1580)

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Date
1580
Author
Leonardo Phioravanti (alternate name for Leonardo Fioravanti )
Translator
John Hester Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
A Short Discours Of the excellent Doctour and Knight, maister Leonardo Phiorauanti Bolognese vppon Chirurgerie. With a declaration of many thinges, necessarie to be knowne, neuer written before in this order: whervnto is added a number of notable secretes, found out by the saide Author. Translated out of Italyan into English, by Iohn Hester, Practicioner in the arte of Distillation
Publication place
London
Publisher
Thomas East
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
  • Latin
  • medicine
Summary
Logical definitions
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
other languages: Latin
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: gloss
sample: What Woundes are. WOundes are those which in Latine is called Vul-nus, & of the vulgar Vulnere, and they are of two kindes, that is, simple & compound. The simple are those that are onely in ye flesh, the compound are those wher are cut sinewes, veynes, muscles and bones, and these are of diuers and sundry kindes. (b3v)
STC
10881
Other editions
1626: STC 10882 (British Library 7480.b.7)
Criticisms
Eamon, William. "Alchemy in Popular Culture: Leonardo Fioravanti and the Search for the Philosopher's Stone." Early Science and Medicine 5.2 (2000): 196-213. view record
McConchie, R. W. "Additions to OED from John Hester's A short discourse of ... maister Leonardo Phioravanti uppon chirurgerie (1580)." Notes and Queries 34 (1984): 11-14. view record