William Turner, Libellus de Re Herbaria Novus (1538)

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Date
1538
Author
William Turner Note: 15/10/2005
Book title
Libellus de Re Herbaria Nouus, in quo herbarum aliquot nomina greca, latina & Anglica habes, vna cum nominibus officinarum, in gratiam studiose iuuentutis nunc primum in lucem &aedlig;ditus
Publication place
London
Printer
J. Byddellum
Transcription source
EEBO
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
  • Greek
  • herbal
  • Latin
Summary
herbal
Language
headwords: Latin
explanations: Latin
other languages: English, French, German, Greek
explanations: Latin
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 20
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 157
sample: APOLLINARIS Apollinaris grece dicitur hyoscyamos, non iusquiamus, ut barbari scribunt & loquuntur, aliqui uocant fabam suillam angli Henbayne.
Alston
XVII.I.30
STC
24358
Facsimiles
Turner, William. Libellus de re herbaria novus . Ed. Benjamin Daydon Jackson. London: Privately printed, 1877. view record
Turner, William. Libellus de re herbaria, 1538, The Names of Herbes, 1548. Publications of the Ray Society, no. 145. London: The Ray Society, 1965. view record
Criticisms
Arber, Agnes. Herbals: Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany, 1470-1670. 1912. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1938. view record
Rydén, Mats. "William Turner and the English Plant Names." Studies in Early Modern English. Ed. Dieter Kastovsky. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994. 349-70. view record
Rydén, Mats. "William Turner: the First English Plant-name Scholar." A Wealth of English: Studies in Honour of Göran Kjellmer. Ed. Karin Aijmer. Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. Gothenburg studies in English, 81. Göteborg: n.p., 2001. 155-62. view record
Jones, Whitney R. D. William Turner: Tudor Naturalist, Physician and Divine. London: Routledge, 1988. view record
Nelson, G. A. William Turner's Contribution to the First Records of British Plants. Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, Scientific Section, vol. 8, pt. 4. Leeds: Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 1959. view record
Rydén, Mats. "William Turner the Botanist in a European Context." Cultural Exchange between European Nations during the Renaissance. Eds. Gunnar Sorelius and Michael Srigley. Proceedings of the Symposium arranged in Uppsala by the Forum for Renaissance Studies of the English Department of Uppsala University, 5-7 June 1993. Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1994. 173-83. view record