William Turner, Avium Præcipvarum (1544)
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Date
1544
Author
William Turner Note: 15/10/2005
Book title
Avium præcipuarum, quarum apud Plinium et Aristotelem mentio est, historia. Adiectis nominibus Græcis, Germanicis & Britannicis
Publication place
Coloniæ
Publisher
Ioan. Gymnicus
Transcription source
British Library
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
- fauna
- German
- Greek
- Latin
Summary
Names of birds in Latin, Greek, English, German
Language
headwords: Latin
explanations: Greek
other languages: English, German
explanations: Greek
explanations: Greek
other languages: English, German
explanations: Greek
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: DE ALCEDONE. [Greek], alcedo, Anglicè the kynges fissher. Germanicè eyn eissuogel.
sample: DE ALCEDONE. [Greek], alcedo, Anglicè the kynges fissher. Germanicè eyn eissuogel.
STC
24350.5
Modern editions
Turner, William. Turner on Birds: A Short and Succinct History of the Principal Birds Noticed by Pliny and Aristotle first Published by Doctor William Turner, 1544 . Ed. A. H. Evans. Trans. A. H. Evans. n.p.: University Press, 1903. view record
Criticisms
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
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
