Christopher Merret, Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum (1666)
Date
1666
Author
Lexicon title
Rogatu Nobilissimi Viri præmisi nomina Anglicana Latinis in sequenti Alphabeto
Book title
Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum, Continens Vegetabilia, Animalia et Fossilia, in hac insulâ repperta inchoatus
Publication place
London
Printer
F. and T. Warren
Publisher
Cave Patleyn
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
- herbal
- Latin
Summary
The glossary is on pp. 139-54; the chapters have article-like entries in Latin, with some English equivalents
Language
headwords: English
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin
Extent
139
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Acetosa minima, sive Oxalis minor, in pratis ficcioribus, Sheeps Sorrel, G. 398. Acetosa minor Lancelota, P. 744. in montosis. (p. 2)
ADders tongue. Ophioglossum. (p. 139)
sample: Acetosa minima, sive Oxalis minor, in pratis ficcioribus, Sheeps Sorrel, G. 398. Acetosa minor Lancelota, P. 744. in montosis. (p. 2)
ADders tongue. Ophioglossum. (p. 139)
Alston
XVII.I.273-74
Wing
M1839
Other editions
1667: Wing M1840 (Alston XVII.I.275). Alston reports that British Library 957.l.13, a copy of the first edition, has manuscript corrections by Merrett.
