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William Turner on Food
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.27718Keywords:
William Turner, 16th-century, British Isles, natural history, botany, herbals & herbalists, ingredients, publishing historyAbstract
The author isolates extracts from William Turner’s 16th-century works that pertain to plants, birds and fish that are used for food. Turner was the first significant writer on English natural history.
References
Birds: Avium praecipuarum, quarum apud Plinium et Aristotelem mentio est, brevis et succincta historia. Cologne: Gymnicus, 1544.
Names: The Names of Herbes in Greke, Latin, Englishe, Duch and Frenche. London: John Day, 1548.
Herbal I: A New Herball [part I]. London: Steven Mierdman,1551. <https://archive.org/details/b30342053_0002>
Fishes: ‘Epistola G. Turneri’ in Conradus Gesnerus, Historiae animalium liber IIII (Zurich: Froschover, 1558) pp. 1294–1297. <https://archive.org/details/BIUSante_pharma_res000050x04/page/1294>
Herbal II: The Seconde Parte of William Turners Herball. Cologne: Arnold Birckman, 1562. <https://archive.org/details/b30342053_0002/page/n215>
Herbal I (2nd ed.), Herbal II (2nd ed.), Herbal III: The First and Seconde Partes of the Herbal … with the Third Parte. Cologne: Arnold Birckman, 1568. <http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/turher/index.html>
Turner’s Latin works are available in English as follows:
A.H. Evans, Turner on Birds: a short and succinct history of the principal birds noticed by Pliny and Aristotle. Cambridge, 1903.
Alwyne Wheeler, Peter S. Davis, Elizabeth Lazenby, ‘William Turner’s (c. 1508–1568) notes on fishes in his letter to Conrad Gessner’, in Archives of Natural History, vol. 13 (1986), pp. 291–305.
