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 [and] 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, physition to the Emperour: and nowe first translated out of French into English, by Henry Lyte Esquyer.
1578
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Title
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 [and] 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, physition to the Emperour: and nowe first translated out of French into English, by Henry Lyte Esquyer.
Uniform title
Cruydenboeck. English
Created/published
At London [i.e. Antwerp] : [printed by Henry Loë, sold] by me Gerard Dewes, dwelling in Pawles Churchyarde at the signe of the Swanne, 1578.
Description
[24], 779, [25] p. : ill., port. ; (fol.)
Associated name
Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585, author.
Lyte, Henry, 1529?-1607.
Massey, Mary P., former owner.
Stirling Maxwell, William, 1818-1878, former owner.
Lyte, Henry, 1529?-1607.
Massey, Mary P., former owner.
Stirling Maxwell, William, 1818-1878, former owner.
Note
A translation of the French translation by Charles de l'Ecluse of: Cruydenboeck.
Colophon reads: Imrinted [sic] at Antwerpe, by me Henry Loë bookeprinter, and are to be solde at London in Povvels Churchyarde, by Gerard Devves.
Title within cartouche.
Includes indexes.
Signatures: *⁶ ²*⁶ A-3G⁶ 3H-3I⁴ 3K-3X⁶ 3Y⁴.
Entered 3 November [1578.] but crossed out.
Colophon reads: Imrinted [sic] at Antwerpe, by me Henry Loë bookeprinter, and are to be solde at London in Povvels Churchyarde, by Gerard Devves.
Title within cartouche.
Includes indexes.
Signatures: *⁶ ²*⁶ A-3G⁶ 3H-3I⁴ 3K-3X⁶ 3Y⁴.
Entered 3 November [1578.] but crossed out.
Folger-specific note
Curatorial file available for copy 2.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Exhibited
Copy 2. Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2011. Beyond Home Remedy.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 6984
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S126799
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S126799
Genre/form
Annotations.
Manicules.
Manicules.
Place of creation/publication
Belgium.
Item Details
Call number
STC 6984 copy 1
Folger-specific note
cs293. Imperfect: wanting sigs. 3X1 and 3Y4 (colophon leaf), supplied in photostat from another copy; t.p. repaired, with lines of type not straight and very faint: 'y' of 'my' in imprint seems to be altered in ink to 'me'; copy stained, wormed, and frayed; many leaves repaired with some text still very faint. Provenance: inscription on t.p.: 'Liber...' [with rest crossed out]; bookplate of R. C. A. Prior (motto 'Crescat coruscet'); Tregaskis Catalogue 556:it
Call number
STC 6984 copy 2
Folger-specific note
245216. Manuscript note on 2R6r; manuscript manicule on 2C2r. T.p. leaf cut out and inlaid; sigs.3X-3Y trimmed and mounted. Armorial goatskin binding,rebacked; marbled end-papers; all edges gilt. Provenance: armorial bookplate of William Stirling, with manuscript date of 1848; bookplate of Mary P. Massey