Old English herbals 1525-1640 / by Horace Mallinson Barlow.

  • Barlow, Horace Mallinson, 1884-
Date:
1913
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Credit: Old English herbals 1525-1640 / by Horace Mallinson Barlow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    surpassed even those of Brunfels, and not only remained unsurpassed, but have never been equalled by any other collection. Now when Turner published bis herbal it would be quite natural for him to endeavour to secure the best collection of blocks available. These belonged to Fuchs, who bad two sets, one for the folio edition of his herbal, and the other for the octavo edition of 1545. The blocks of the latter were evidently borrowed by Turner’s printer, and of the 516 employed by Fuchs more than 400 were used in the complete edition of the herbal printed at Cologne in 1568. The advantage of securing the loan of these blocks was probably the chief reason why the book, like Lyte’s translation of Dodoens, was printed abroad. But a number of Turner’s figures were not taken from Fuchs. Of these a few were copied from the smaller figures of Mattbiolus, but the source of the remainder I am unable to state. They were probably engraved from plants collected by Turner himself. Lobel’s Herbal. Matthias de L’Obel, after whom the garden flower Lobelia takes its name, was, like'Dodoens, another Flemish herbalist who contributed to English botany. He was born in Flanders in 1538. After studying under Bondeletius at Montpelier, and travelling over various parts of the Continent, be settled at Antwerp, practised medicine, and became physician to William the Silent. About 1569 be crossed over to England, and resided with bis son-in-law at Higbgate, where be died in 1616. He held the appointment of superintendent of the physic garden belonging to Lord Zoucb at Hackney, and received later the title of Botanist to James I. His first work, written in conjunction with Peter Pena, a Frenchman, who was at one time physician to Louis XIII, bears the following title :— Stirpium Adversaria Nova, | perfacilis vestigatio, luculentaque accessio ad Priscorum, presertim | Dioscoridis et recentiorum, Materiam Medicam. | Quibus propediem accedet altera pars. | Qua | Coniectane- orum de plantis appendix, | De succis medicatis et Metallicis sectio, | Antiquse e[t] nouatse Medicine lectiorum remedioru | thesaurus opu- lentissimus, | De succedaneis libellus, continentur. | Authoribus Petro Pena & Matbia de Lobel, Medicis. | Colophon. — Londini, 1571. | Calendis Januariis, excudebat prelum Tbo- | ruse Purfoetii ad Lucretie symbolum. | Cum gratia Priuilegii. | Underneath the title is a curious map of Europe and- part of Africa,