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A nievve herball, or, Historie of plantes : wherin is contayned the vvhole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of herbes and plantes : their diuers & sundry kindes, their straunge figures, fashions and shapes, their names, natures, operations, and vertues : and that not onely of those whiche are here growyng in this our countrie of Englande, but of all others also of forrayne realmes commonly vsed in physicke : first set foorth in the Doutche or Almaigne tongue / by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens ... ; and nowe first translated out of French into English by Henry Lyte ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Collection Folio QK41 .D648 1578
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585.
- Standardized Title:
- Cruydeboeck. English
- Language:
- Dutch
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Botany, Medical--Early works to 1800.
- Botany, Medical.
- Botany--Pre-Linnean works.
- Botany.
- Herbs--Therapeutic use--Early works to 1800.
- Herbs.
- Herbs--Therapeutic use.
- Medicinal plants--Early works to 1800.
- Medicinal plants.
- Materia medica, Vegetable--Early works to 1800.
- Materia medica, Vegetable.
- Signatures (Medicine)--Early works to 1800.
- Signatures (Medicine).
- Herbals--Early works to 1800.
- Herbals.
- Physical Description:
- 24 unnumbered pages, 779 pages, 25 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portrait, coat of arms ; 30 cm (folio)
- Other Title:
- Nievve herball
- Historie of plantes
- Niewe herball, or, Historie of plants
- Niewe herball
- Place of Publication:
- At London : By my Gerard Dewes ..., 1578.
- Notes:
- A translation of the French translation by Charles de l'Ecluse of: Cruydeboeck.
- "Imprint in two settings. In this setting, second line of imprint begins 'by my'. Another setting begins 'by me'."--ESTC.
- Colophon reads: Imrinted [sic] at Antwerpe, by me Henry Loë bookeprinter, and are to be solde at London in Povvels Churchyarde, by Gerard Devves.
- Signatures: *⁶ ²*⁶ A-3G⁶ 3H-3I⁴ 3K-3X⁶ 3Y⁴.
- Numerous errors in paging.
- Title within woodcut border; woodcut initials, illustrations and printer's device.
- Printed marginalia.
- Includes indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Furness Folio QK41 .D648 1578 imperfect: leaves *6 (portrait), 3X5 and 3X6, and gathering 3Y wanting (including colophon); some of the missing text of leaves 3X5 and 3X6 supplied in ms. on back free endpapers; first gathering (including title leaf) slightly mutilated with some loss of text. Presented to the Penn Libraries by Horace Howard Furness, Jr., and Louise Brooks Winsor Furness in honor of Horace Howard Furness. Leaf *4 bound after leaf *3; autograph of Nicholas Booker in ink on leaf N1v.
- Kislak Center Folio 580 D665 EL imperfect: leaves *1-D5 and leaves 3T4-3Y4 are torn and or tattered at outer margins and corners, reinforced, with some loss of text. Autographs of Anne Whithall (dated 1642), of Carolus Whithall (dated 1650), and of Thomas Barker (dated 1800). Ms. list of the Barker family and original ink drawings of birds on leaf *6 verso.
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd ed.) 6984
- ESTC S107363
- OCLC:
- 4305444
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