Natural history in Shakespeare's time : being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it / Made by H. W. Seager, M. B., &c. Also pictures thereunto belonging.

  • Seager, H. W. (Herbert West), 1848-
Date:
1896
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Credit: Natural history in Shakespeare's time : being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it / Made by H. W. Seager, M. B., &c. Also pictures thereunto belonging. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    contents, but for their style. Here and there illustrative notes have been added. The text of Shakespeare referred to is that of the Globe edition. The books and editions most frequently uuoted are : Bartholomeiv. Liber de proprietatibus rerum editus a fratre Bartholomeo anglico ordinis fratrum minorum. Im- pressus Argentine Anno domini MCCCCLXXXV'. Finitus in die Sancti Valentini. Bartholomew {Berthelet). Bartholomeus de Proprietatibus Rerum. [Translated into English by J. Trevisa.] In aedibus T. Bertheletti, -Lond. 1535. So runs the de- scription in the British Museum catalogue, but this version does not follow Trevisa's translation accurately ; on the contrary, it quotes Trevisa for some deviations from, and additions to, Bartholomew's text. Batman. Batman upon Bartholome, his Booke ' De Proprietatibus Rerum' [in the translation by J. Trevisa]. Newly corrected, enlarged and amended ; with such Ad- ditions as are requisite vnto euery seuerall Booke. Taken foorth of the most approued Authors, the like heretofore not translated in English, etc. T. East, Lond. 1582. Probably Shakespeare used not Batman'? version, but the Berthelet edition, which, being older, would probably be cheaper in his days. All of Batman's Additions that are of any interest are quoted in these pages, but they are few and generally unimportant. His emendations con- sist mostly in the substitution for an archaic word of a more modern and less interesting one. There can be no doubt that Friar Bartholomew's book was the standard authority on Natural History in Shake- speare's youth ; indeed, it was the onlv popular authority. It is true that there were some few books on Natural