William Turner, A New Herbal (1551)

Date

1551

Author

William Turner Note: 15/10/2005

Book title

A new Herball, wherin are conteyned the names of Herbes in Greke, Latin, Englysh, Duch Frenche, and in the Potecaries and Herbaries Latin, with the properties degrees and naturall places of the same, gathered and made by Wylliam Turner, Physicion vnto the Duke of Somersettes Grace

Publication place

London

Printer

Steven Mierdman

Publisher

John Gybken

Transcription source

EEBO

Text type

printed book

Genre

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies

Subject area

• Dutch
• French
• Greek
• herbal
• Latin

Language

headwords: English
other languages: Greek, Latin, English, Dutch, French
Turner distinguishes between Latin and "the potecaries and herbaries Latin"

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
number: 172
sample: Of stynkynge Horehounde.

Stynkynge Horehounde is named in Greke Ballote, in sume greke bookes megapraision, and other melanprasion of the Latines Marrubium magnum or marrubium negrim in Duche stinkyn Andorue, in Frenche marrubium noir, it is called also in Englishe blake horehounde: Ballote hath foursquare stalkes blake & smuthing roughe, many growynge furth of one roote, wyth greater leues then horehounde, roughe and a space goyng betwene sum thing rounde, like vnto apastrum we cal baume, wherfor sum cal it apiastrum that is baume, white floures do compasse the stalke about after the maner of whorles
The vertue of stynkynge Horehounde.
THe leues of this herbe layd to with salt, ar good for the bytyng of a doge. If the leues be layd in asshes whilse thei faide alitle thei stop the swellyng lumpes that ryse in the fundament: with hony also they purge fylthy and foule woundes. (f1v)

Alston

XVII.I.39

STC

24365

Other editions

1562: The seconde parte of William Turners herball (Collen: A. Birckman): STC 24366 (Alston XVII.I.67);
1568: The first and seconde partes of the herbal lately ouersene, corrected and enlarged with the third parte, lately gethered (Collen: A. Birckman): STC 24367 (Alston XVII.I.68)

Criticisms

Arber, Agnes. Herbals: Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany, 1470-1670. 1912. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1938. 102 ff.. view record
Osselton, N. E. "English Specialized Lexicography in the Late Middle Ages and in the Renaissance." Fachsprachen. Languages for Special Purposes. Eds. L. Hoffman and others. 2 vols. Vol. II. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1998. 2458-65. view record
Rydén, Mats. "William Turner and the English Plant Names." Studies in Early Modern English. Ed. Dieter Kastovsky. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994. 349-70. view record
Jones, Whitney R. D. William Turner: Tudor Naturalist, Physician and Divine. London: Routledge, 1988. 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