Anonymous, The Great Herbal (1526)
Date
27 July 1526
Author
Lexicon title
(a) The registre of the chaptrees in latyn and in Englyssge;
(b) The exposicyon of the wordes obscure and euyll knownen
(b) The exposicyon of the wordes obscure and euyll knownen
Book title
The grete herball whiche geueth parfyt knowlege and vnd[er]standyng of all maner of herbes & there gracyous vertues whiche god ha[th] ordeyned for our prosperous welfare and helth / forthey hele & cure all man[er] of dyseases and sekenesses that fall or mysfortune to all maner of creatour[es] of god created/practysed by many expert and wyse maysters/as Auicenna [&] other. &c. Also it geueth full parfyte vnderstandynge of the booke lately pr[en]tyd by me( Peter treueris ) named the noble experiens of the vertuous ha[nd]warke of surgery
Publication place
Southwark
Publisher
Peter Treveris
Transcription source
British Library C.27.l.1
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
herbal
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
(a) the table of contents at the beginning of the book (+2v-+5v); and <br>
(b) Dd1r-Dd3v
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 594
sample: (a) ALoe / a iuce so named ca. i. (+2v)
(b) ALlopice is ye fallyng of here whiche maketh blade [bald] places or pylled clene without here on ye heed. Also allopice is a maner of lepry through the whiche the here of the browes and of ye brede [head] dooth fall. (dd1r)
number: 594
sample: (a) ALoe / a iuce so named ca. i. (+2v)
(b) ALlopice is ye fallyng of here whiche maketh blade [bald] places or pylled clene without here on ye heed. Also allopice is a maner of lepry through the whiche the here of the browes and of ye brede [head] dooth fall. (dd1r)
Alston
XVII.I.22
Schafer
1526 H
STC
13176
Catalog
Henrey, Blanche. British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800: Comprising a History and Bibliography of Botanical and Horticultural Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland from the Earliest Times until 1800. 2 vols. London: Oxford University Press, 1975.
No. 168
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Other editions
1529: STC 13177 (Alston XVII.I.23);
1529: STC 13177.5 (Alston XVII.I.24);
1539: STC 13178 (Alston XVII.I.25; London: Thomas Gybson; "newly corrected" with "An exposycyon of the wordes oscure and not well knowen");
1561: STC 13179 (Alston XVII.I.26)
1529: STC 13177.5 (Alston XVII.I.24);
1539: STC 13178 (Alston XVII.I.25; London: Thomas Gybson; "newly corrected" with "An exposycyon of the wordes oscure and not well knowen");
1561: STC 13179 (Alston XVII.I.26)
Modern editions
Rydén, M. "The English Plant Names in the Grete Herball (1526): A Contribution to the Historical Study of English Plant-name Usage." Stockholm Studies in English 61 (1984): 1-110.
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Criticisms
Arber, Agnes. Herbals: Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany, 1470-1670. 1912. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1938.
40-46.
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Larkey, Sanford V. "Scientific Glossaries in Sixteenth Century English Books." Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine 5 (1937): 105-14. 107. view record
Larkey, Sanford V. "Scientific Glossaries in Sixteenth Century English Books." Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine 5 (1937): 105-14. 107. view record
