Cruydeboeck. English, Nievve herball, Niewe herball, and Historie of plantes
Description:
BEIN 2012 +286: 30 cm. Imperfect: woodcut initial excised from p. 574, with slight loss of lettering to p. 573; last two gatherings repaired at bottom, with some loss of text, some of which is supplied in manuscript. This copy has the variant state of leaves *3.4. Ownership inscriptions of Thomas Lane on three pages, one each dated 1673 and 1678, and his initials stamped on binding. Ms. note at end, dated 1638, makes reference to "my Mother Gollop." Presentation bookplate dated 1936 from Mrs. A.G. Hartland to the Hartland Library (Gloucestershire). Stamp with shelf-mark: Gloucestershire Public Library. Annotations in 16th-17th century hands, some trimmed. Small pocket with library cards on front paste-down. Numerous dealers' descriptions for various editions of this text inserted at front. Plant samples pressed in volume., BEIN 2014 +781: 28 cm. Imperfect: P. [24-25], third count, wanting; p. [2-3], third count, and [22-23], third count, mutilated, with loss of text; t.p. mutilated, with slight loss of ornamental border; edges trimmed, with occasional slight loss of text. This copy has the variant state of leaves *3.4. Undeciphered autographs at top edge of t.p., partially lost through trimming. Autograph on t.p.: Wm. Booth 1780. Autograph on p. [9], first count: This herball which you heeare doe see/doth wholly appertaine to mee/for why my monny bought the same/and Richard Drafgate is my name. Unidentifed bookplate on front paste-down: HC. Very occasional ms. notes along outer margin, with heavy loss due to trimming., Signatures: *⁶ ²*⁶ A-3G⁶ 3H-3I⁴ 3K-3X⁶ 3Y⁴ (*3 signed '[fleuron]iij')., Colophon: Imrinted [sic] at Antwerpe, by me Henry Loë bookeprinter, and are to be solde at London in Povvels Churchyarde, by Gerard Devves., A translation of the French translation by Charles de l'Ecluse of: Cruydenboeck., Imprint in two settings. In this setting, second line of imprint begins "by me". Another setting begins "by my" (ESTC S107363)., Variant state of leaves *3.4 present in some copies. *3r has first line of caption title in black letter, the variant state does not. *4r is signed and has catchword "Cubba,", the variant state is not signed and has catchword "Cuba,"., and Includes indexes in Latin and English.
Publisher:
By me Gerard Dewes, dwelling in Pawles Churchyarde at the signe of the Swanne, By me Henry Loë bookeprinter, and are to be solde at London in Povvels Churchyarde, by Gerard Devves)
Subject (Topic):
Herbals, Botany, Medical, Botany, Herbs, and Therapeutic use
Album containing 73 pressed botanical specimens compiled by an unidentified collector in Norfolk, England, 1793. Each specimen has notes indicating its Latin name, common name, and Linnaean classification. Some notes also include the date of collection, the location of collection, and medicinal uses of the plant
Description:
In English and Latin., The album was created in a blank accounts book, and the pages have printed red rules., and Binding: contemporary vellum over boards, with blind tooled ruling; the arms of King George III stamped in gilt on the front and back covers.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, England, and Norfolk
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820.
Subject (Topic):
Botanical specimens, Collection and preservation, Flowers, Herbs, and Plants
Title from item., Date from copy in Wellcome Collection, website viewed 7/25/2023: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/axs2d89j, G. Baldwin was based at 77 Walworth Road, London. It is still in business at 173 Walworth Road., Above title: "The Lord causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herbs for the service of man." Psalm CIV.14., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing an herbal in prose and verse. The volume opens with two Middle English poems, showing traces of East Anglian dialect, describing a variety of herbs and their medicinal properties, as well as accepted cures and prescriptions for a number of ailments. These are followed by Middle English and Latin prose texts also concerning herbal medicine
Description:
In Middle English and Latin., Laid in: parchment fragment probably recovered from earlier binding., Layout: single columns of 33 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: some initials, headings and words in red ink., and Binding: modern vellum boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
English poetry, English prose literature, Herbals, Herbs, Therapeutic use, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
Weiditz, Hans, approximately 1495-approximately 1536, printmaker
Published / Created:
[16th century]
Call Number:
Print00923
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., From: Francisci Petrarche, Trostspiegel in Glück und Unglück, Frankfurt am Main: Egenolff., Containing volume has editions of 1566, 1574, 1584., Woodcut is attributed to Hans Weiditz. Formerly attributed to Hans, Illustration for Cap. XXII, page 19., Trimmed within inscription., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Pharmacies, interior.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Subject (Topic):
Drugstores, Smell, Flowers, Fruit, Plants, Herbs, Perfumes, and Pharmacists
Herbarius, Rogatu plurimorum in opum nummorum egentium appotecas refutantium occasione illa quia necessaria ibidem ad corpus egrum spectantium sunt cara ..., and Herbarius latinus
Description:
Title from incipit on leaf pi2r., Imprint from Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke., Signatures: pi⁴ a-u⁸ x¹⁰ (pi1 blank)., Includes 150 woodcut illustrations of plants., Initial spaces, some with guide-letters., Pages [1]-[2] are blank., Text in Latin; plant names under many of the woodcuts given in Latin and French., Includes some red lettering., and BAC Leaf Collection no. 0427: Imperfect: 3 leaves only. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.