Conrad Gesner, Historiae Animalium (1551)

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Date
15510
Author
Book title
Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae animalium lib.1. De quadrupedibus uiuiparis
Publisher
Christ. Froschouerum
Transcription source
Internet Archive
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
fauna
Summary
The index promises "Eorundem indices aliquot alphabeti in diuersis linguis, Hebraica, Chaldaica, Arabica: Persica, Graeca, Italica, Hispanica, Gallica, Germanica, Anglica, Illyrica." This index lists 68 animals by name and page number under "Anglica." See Gabriele Stein, "Hadrianus Junius' Nomenclator Reconsidered," Word Studies in the Renaissance (Oxford, 2017).
Language
headwords: Latin
explanations: various
other languages: English
explanations: various
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: gloss
sample: Anglice an asse (p.3, sig. a2r)
Catalog
Kennedy 1927: 2785, 2792.