John Maplet, A Green Forest (1567)
Date
3 June 1567
Author
John
Maplet
Note: 11/10/2005
Book title
A greene Forest, or a naturall Historie, Wherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne Vertues in all the whole kinde of Stones & Mettals: next of Plants, as of Herbes, Trees, & Shrubs, Lastly of Brute Beastes, Foules, Fishes, creeping wormes & Serpents, and that Alphabetically: so that a Table shall not neede. Compiled by Iohn Maplet, M. of Arte, and student in Cambridge: entending hereby yt God might especially be glorified: and the people furdered
Publication place
London
Printer
Henry Denham
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- fauna
- herbal
- jeweling
- minerals
Summary
"A pleasaunt Discourse with the chiefe kindes particularlye of Precious Stones, Plants, Beastes, & Foules, after the order of the Alphabet, neuer heretofore in Print"
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: Of the Pionite. THe Pionite is a stone thought to be onely a Female, for in very short time and full quickly it conceyueth & bringeth forth his like, and is an helpe also to such as be pregnant and big with childe.
sample: Of the Pionite. THe Pionite is a stone thought to be onely a Female, for in very short time and full quickly it conceyueth & bringeth forth his like, and is an helpe also to such as be pregnant and big with childe.
Alston
XVII.I.74
STC
17296
Facsimiles
Maplet, John. A Greene Forest: London, 1567. Norwood, N.J., and Amsterdam: W. J. Johnson and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1979.
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Maplet, John. A Greene Forest; or, A naturall historie, wherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees and shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes, and serpents, and that alphabetically; so that a table shall not neede. n.p.: The Hesperides Press, 1930. view record
Maplet, John. A Greene Forest; or, A naturall historie, wherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees and shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes, and serpents, and that alphabetically; so that a table shall not neede. n.p.: The Hesperides Press, 1930. view record
Criticisms
Heninger, S. K., Jr. "Tudor Literature of the Physical Sciences." Huntington Library Quarterly 32 (1968-69): 103-33, 249-70.
104.
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