Joannes de Vigo, Works of Chirurgery (1543)
Full Text
EEBO/TCP
Date
1543
Author
Vigon (alternate name for Joannes de Vigo )
Translator
Bartholomew Traheron Note: 14/10/2005
Lexicon title
The interpretation of straunge wordes, vsed in the translation of Vigon
Book title
The most excellent workes of Chirurgerye, made and set forth by maister Iohn Vigon, heed Chirurgien of our tyme in Italie, translated into english. Whereunto is added
an exposition of straunge termes and vnknowen symples, belongyng to the arte
Publication place
London
Publisher
Edward Whitchurch
Transcription source
Bodleian Library copy, from the Da Capo facsimile (1968). Alston reports that the British Library copy (7480.h.3) does not have the glossary.
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- German
- medicine
Summary
Larkey reports that the glossary is identical in all editions.
Language
headwords: English or Latin
explanations: English
other languages: Dutch, German, Greek, Latin
explanations: English
The entire text being in black letter, languages are not distinguished from one another by font but rather by explicit naming
explanations: English
other languages: Dutch, German, Greek, Latin
explanations: English
The entire text being in black letter, languages are not distinguished from one another by font but rather by explicit naming
Extent
zz1r-@@3v
Pages type
sig
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 18
number: 18
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 430
sample: ABietis. Vigo in one of .ii. receytes, commaundeth to take of abietis. [unicode0292].ii. & ½ where he meaneth the rasyn of the fyrre, or sapyne tree. I haue red also, that the apotecaries call palmam Elaten, wherof, the oyle called oleum elatinum is made, palmam a bietem. Palma is a date tree, & abies a fyr tree.
number: 430
sample: ABietis. Vigo in one of .ii. receytes, commaundeth to take of abietis. [unicode0292].ii. & ½ where he meaneth the rasyn of the fyrre, or sapyne tree. I haue red also, that the apotecaries call palmam Elaten, wherof, the oyle called oleum elatinum is made, palmam a bietem. Palma is a date tree, & abies a fyr tree.
Alston
XVII.I.30a
Schafer
1543 T
STC
24720
Other editions
1550: STC 24721 (Alston XVII.I.30b);
1571: STC 24722 (Alston XVII.I.30b);
1586: STC 24723 (Alston XVII.I.30c; enlarged by T. Gale)
1571: STC 24722 (Alston XVII.I.30b);
1586: STC 24723 (Alston XVII.I.30c; enlarged by T. Gale)
Facsimiles
Vigo, Giovanni de. The most excellent workes of chirurgerye / Joannes de Vigo. The English experience, no. 67. Amsterdam and New York: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and Da Capo Press, 1968. view record
Criticisms
Larkey, Sanford V. "Scientific Glossaries in Sixteenth Century English Books." Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine 5 (1937): 105-14. 112. view record
