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Rembert Dodoens (1517-1585)
Florum, et coronariarum odoratarumque nonnullarum herbarum historia.
Antwerp: Christophori Plantini, 1569

Dodoens, also known as Rembertus Dodonaeus, was a Flemish physician and botanist. He was one-time physician to the Austrian Emperor, Rudolph II, but moved on from there to a professorship in medicine at the University of Leiden. He produced a number of significant volumes in his lifetime, including the Cruydeboeck, which was essentially a pharmacopiea. It was translated by no less than Clusius into French and from that translation, into English and Latin by others. That work was used for several centuries as a standard reference book for physicians, and notably, the Latin translation was used by Gerard as a source for his now-famous Herball. The featured work is a similar volume which is bound with Dodoens' Historia frumentorum, leguminum, palustrium... and is part of the Lloyd's vast collection on Pre-Linnean botany.

Title page from Historia frumentorum...

Pages 306 and 307

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