Gervase Markham, Cheap and Good Husbandry (1614)
Date
1614
Author
Gervase
Markham
Note: 11/10/2005
Lexicon title
A Short Table, expounding all the hard words in this Booke
Book title
Cheape and Good Hvsbandry For the well-Ordering of all Beasts, and Fowles, and for the Generall Cure of their Diseases. Contayning the Natures, Breeding, Choyse, Vse,
Feeding, and Curing of the diseases of all manner of Cattell, as Horse, Oxe, Cow, Sheepe, Goates, Swine, and tame-Conies. Also,approued Rules, for the Cramming, and Fatting,of all sorts of Poultrie,and Fowles, both tame and wilde, &c. And diuers good and well-approued Medicines,
for the Cure of all the diseases in Hawkes, of what kinde soeuer. Together, with the Vse and Proit of Bees : the making of Fishponds, and the taking of all sorts of Fish.
Gathered together for the generall good and profit of this
whole Realme , by exact and assured experience from English practises,both certaine, easie, and cheape: differing from all former and forraine experiments, which eyther agreed not with our Clime, or were too hard to come by, or ouercostly, to little purpose: all which herein are auoyded
Publication place
London
Printer
Thomas Snodham
Publisher
Roger Jackson
Transcription source
British Library G.2383 (3). Also an EEBO/TCP transcript is available
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- agriculture
- fauna
Summary
Definitions of animal diseases, followed by proposed cures; and a table of herbs
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
A5r-A8r
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Patch-grease is that tallow which is gotten from the boyling of Shoemakers shreads.
sample: Patch-grease is that tallow which is gotten from the boyling of Shoemakers shreads.
Schafer
1614 M
STC
17336
Facsimiles
Markham, Gervase. Cheape and Good Husbandry. The English experience, no. 139. Amsterdam and New York: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and Da Capo Press, 1969.
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Criticisms
Mullett, Charles F. "Gervase Markham: Scientific Amateur." Isis 35.2, alt. no. 100 (1944): 106-18.
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Wall, Wendy. "Renaissance National Husbandry: Gervase Markham and the Publication of England." The Sixteenth Century Journal 27.3 (1996): 767-85. view record
Wall, Wendy. "Renaissance National Husbandry: Gervase Markham and the Publication of England." The Sixteenth Century Journal 27.3 (1996): 767-85. view record
