Conrad Gesner, Historiae Animalium (1551)

Date

1551

Author

Conrad Gesner

Book title

Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae animalium lib.1. De quadrupedibus uiuiparis

Publisher

Christ. Froschouerum

Transcription source

Internet Archive

Text type

printed book

Genre

Treatises

Subject area

fauna

Summary

The index promises "Eorundem indices aliquot alphabeti in diuersis linguis, Hebraica, Chaldaica, Arabica: Persica, Graeca, Italica, Hispanica, Gallica, Germanica, Anglica, Illyrica." This index lists 68 animals by name and page number under "Anglica." See Gabriele Stein, "Hadrianus Junius' Nomenclator Reconsidered," Word Studies in the Renaissance (Oxford, 2017).

Language

headwords: Latin
explanations: various
other languages: English
explanations: various

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: gloss
sample: Anglice an asse (p.3, sig. a2r)

Catalog

Kennedy 1927: 2785, 2792.