John Gerard, The Herbal (1597)
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Date
1597
Author
John Gerard Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes
Publication place
London
Printer
Edmund Bollifant
Publisher
Bonham Norton and John Norton
Transcription source
jah f Fisher Library (both 1597 and 1633);
Henry E. Huntington Library (1636)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
herbal
Summary
Three books, of grasses (106), edible plants (307), and trees and shrubs (166). (a) "A Table of all such English names, as are attributed vnto the Herbes, Shrubs, and Trees, mentioned in this Historie"; (b) A Supplement or Appendix vnto the Generall Table, and to the Table of English names: gathered out of ancient written and printed Copies, and from the mouthes of plaine and simple Countrie people". Gerard completed Dr Priest's translation of R. Dodoens' Pemptades (1583)
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: topical
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 579
sample: (a) Aconite, that is Wolfes bane 818.819 (eeeee2r)
(b) Argentill is Percepier. (fffff3r)
number: 579
sample: (a) Aconite, that is Wolfes bane 818.819 (eeeee2r)
(b) Argentill is Percepier. (fffff3r)
Alston
XVII.I.103
Schafer
1597 G, 1636 G
STC
11750
Other editions
1633: STC 11751 (Alston XVII.I.104);
1636: STC 11752 (Johnson, Thomas, Gerard's Herball: the essence of thereof [Adam Islip, Joyce Norton, Richard Whitaker, 1636]; Alston XVII.I.105)
1636: STC 11752 (Johnson, Thomas, Gerard's Herball: the essence of thereof [Adam Islip, Joyce Norton, Richard Whitaker, 1636]; Alston XVII.I.105)
Modern editions
Gerard, John, and Thomas Johnson. Gerard's Herball: The Essence Thereof Distilled by Marcus Woodward from the Edition of Th. Johnson, 1636. Ed. Marcus Woodward. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. view record
Criticisms
Court, W. E. "John Gerard and his Herbal." Pharm. Hist. (Lond.) 22.3 (1992): 2-6. view record
Jeffers, R. H. The Friends of John Gerard (1545-1612), Surgeon and Botanist. Falls Village, Conn.: Herb Growe Press, 1967. view record
Osselton, N. E. "English Specialized Lexicography in the Late Middle Ages and in the Renaissance." Fachsprachen. Languages for Special Purposes. Eds. L. Hoffman and others. 2 vols. Vol. II. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1998. 2458-65. view record
Phelps, Wayne H. "John Gerard, the Herbalist." 6th series. The Library 2.1 (1980 March): 76-80. view record
Rydén, Mats. "The English Plant Names in Gerard's Herball (1597)." Studies in English Philology, Linguistics and Literature Presented to Alarik Rynell, 7 March 1978. Eds. Mats Rydén and L. A. Björk. Stockholm: n.p., 1978. 142-50. view record
Jeffers, R. H. The Friends of John Gerard (1545-1612), Surgeon and Botanist. Falls Village, Conn.: Herb Growe Press, 1967. view record
Osselton, N. E. "English Specialized Lexicography in the Late Middle Ages and in the Renaissance." Fachsprachen. Languages for Special Purposes. Eds. L. Hoffman and others. 2 vols. Vol. II. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1998. 2458-65. view record
Phelps, Wayne H. "John Gerard, the Herbalist." 6th series. The Library 2.1 (1980 March): 76-80. view record
Rydén, Mats. "The English Plant Names in Gerard's Herball (1597)." Studies in English Philology, Linguistics and Literature Presented to Alarik Rynell, 7 March 1978. Eds. Mats Rydén and L. A. Björk. Stockholm: n.p., 1978. 142-50. view record
Sources
- Theodorus, Jacob, Tabernæmontanus. Eicones plantarum seu stirpium, arborum nempe, fructicum, herbarum, fructuum ... quæ partim Germania sponte producit; partim ab exteris regionibus allata in Germania plantantur ... Curante N. Bassæo. Lat. and Ger.. 3 parts. Francofurti ad Mænium: n.p., 1590. 1800 woodcuts view record
