> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 661](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120792) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2247-1) LSID 2247-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q437466) QID Q437466 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Dodoens \[Dodonaeus\], Rembert \[van Joenckema, Rembert\] (1518-1585), Netherlands physician and botanist. **Abbreviated name**: *Dodoens* \[standard form in IPNI: *Dodoens*\] #### Herbarium and types It is not known whether Dodoens made herbarium specimens. #### Bibliography and biography Aa 4: 202; AG 7: 277; Barnhart 1: 460; BM 1: 468; Bossert p. 104; GR p. 694; Jackson p. 540; JW 1: 441-442, 2: 189, 3: 349, 4: 383, 5: 239 (q.v. for many source refs.); Kew 2: 100; Langman p. 247-248; LS 7218-7219; NI 506-518; Plesch p. 204-206; PR 2342-2350. - Dryander, Cat. bibl. hist.-nat. Banks 3: 54-55. 1797. - Meerbeeck, Recherches historiques et critiques sur la vie et les ouvrages de Rembert Dodoens. Mechelen 1841, xiv, 340 p. - Aroine et Broeckx, Éloge de Rembert Dodoens, Mechelen 1850. - Meyer, Gesch. Bot. 4: 340-350. 1857. - Bioeckx, Lettre à M. le docteur P. J. van Meerbeeck, Antwerpen 1862. - Oudemans, Ned. kruidk. Arch. ser. 2. 2: 217-220. 1877. - Varenbergh, Bibl. nationale, Belgique 4: 85-112. 1878. - De Cock, Rembert Dodoens, Gent 1890, 60 p. - Suringar, Ned. kruidk. Arch. ser. 2. 5: 652-656. 1893. - Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 66, 73, 167. *pl. 10.* 1905 (portr.) - Andel, Rembertus Dodonaeus and his influence on flemish and dutch folk medecine. Leiden 1917, 11 p. - Andries, Rembertus Dodoens, Antwerpen 1917. - Hunger, Ned. Tijdschr. Geneesk. 1917(1): 2118-2125. (repr. 8 p.) - Hunger, De Amsterdammer, 30 Jun & 23 Jul 1917, 8 p. - Leersum et al., Janus 22: 141-281. 1917. - Hunger, Bijdr. Gesch. Geneesk. 3: 116-121, 306-307. 1923 (b. 1516!). - Hunger, Ned. Tijdschr. Geneesk. 67(1): 3-8. 1923. - Vandeveide, Versl. Meded. Kon. Vlaamse Acad. Taal en Letterk. Jan 1927: 13-41. - Backer, Verkl. woordenb. 181. 1936. - Moebius, Gesch. Bot. 31. 1937. - Louis, Critische beschouwingen bij de Dodoens-brief van 26 November 1583. Brussel 1954. - Louis, Dodonaea 21: 235-280. 1954. - Lenger, Bibliotheca belgica 2: 192-235. 1964 (the major bibl., also orig. biogr. data). - Vandewiele, Regn. veg. 71: 417 \[index\]. 1970. - Winters, Natuur Wereld 23(6): 250-255. 1970. - Florkin, DSB 4: 138-140. 1971. - Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 179. 1971. - Wittop Koning, Rembertus Dodonaeus Cruyde-boeck, introductory text to Nieuwendijk facsimile ed., xvi p., 1971. #### Note There is still no certainty with respect to the birthyear of Dodoens. Lenger (1964) accepts 1518, Louis (1954) 1517. #### Eponymy (genera) *Dodonaea* Adanson (1763); *Dodonaea* Boehmer (1760); *Dodonaea* P. Miller (1754); (journals): *Dodonaea* biologisch jaarboek uitgegeven door het Koninklijk Natuurwetenschappelijk Genootschap "Dodonaea" te Gent. Brussel. Vol. 1-2, 1841-1843; *Botanisch jaarboek* uitgegeven door het Kruidkundig Genootschap Dodonaea te Gent. Gent. Vol. 1-25, 1889-1934; superseded by *Biologisch jaarboek* uitgegeven door het Natuurwetenschappelijk Genootschap Dodonaea te Gent (Gesticht in 1887). Antwerpen. Vol. 1-x. 1934-x. #### Handwriting see Hunger (1923), Louis (1954) and Lenger (1964). #### Postage stamps Belgium 1 f. + 15 c. (1942), yv. 597. ### Publications ##### n.1481. de frugum historia, liber unus **Title** Remberti Dodonaei Mechliniensis medici *de frugum historia, liber unus*. Ejusdem epistolae duae, una de Farre, Chondro, Trago, Ptisana, Crimno et Alica; altera de Zytho et Cerevisia. Antwerpen (Ex officina Joannis Loëi) 1552. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *De frug. hist.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1552, lvs \[1\]-94 \[79-82 not numbered\], \[2\]. *Copy*: HU. – This early work of Dodoens was later incorporated in the Cruyde-boeck as its fourth book. Most figures are copied from Fuchs (portr., 35 figs. on 31 woodcuts). *Ref*.: BM 1: 468; Lenger D 103; Meerbeeck 2; NI 506; HU 67; PR 2342. - Meyer, Gesch. Bot. 4: 341-342. 1857. ##### n.1482. Crüijdeboeck **Title** *Crüijdeboeck*. In den welcken die gheheele historie / dat es t gheslacht / t fatsoen / naem / natuere / cracht ende werckinge / van de den Cruyden / niet alleen hier te lande wassende / maer oock van den anderen vremden in der medecijnen oorboorlijck / met grooter neersticheyt begrepen ende verclaert es / met der selver Cruyden natuerlick naer dat leven conterfeytsel daer by ghestelt. Der hoochgeheborene ende alder doorluchtichste Coninghinne ende Vrouwe / Vrouw Marien Coninghinne Douaigiere van Hungheren / ende Bohemen etc. Regente ende Gouvernante van des M. Neerlanden toeghescreven. Duer D. Rembert Dodoens / Medecijn van der stadt van Mechelen. \[colophon:\] Ghedruckt t Antwerpen by Jan vander Loe in onser Vrouwe pandt int Jaer MDLIIII. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Cruijdeb.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1552-1554, pagination: \[i\*-xxxix\*\], \[i\]-cccc ccccxviii, \[20, index\]. *Copies*: HH, Teyler. – The original edition of the *Cruijdeboeck* is rare (other copies are at: Ann Arbor, Brussel, Plesch; the facsimile edition was produced from a copy owned by J. B. van Gelder at Gorinchem). Other editions, all different, are from 1563, 1608, 1618, 1644 (see below). The last three "editions" are based on the *Pemptades* and are actually translations of this latter book. A 1590 edition has been mentioned but does not exist (a misreading of the gothic number MDLIIII in the colophon of the editio princeps). Dodoens references in Linnaeus and Adanson are usually not to the Dutch editions but to the *Pemptades*. *Facsimile edition*: Nieuwendijk (De Forel N.V.) 1971, ISBN 90-6103-421-3. *Copy*: FAS. *Ref*.: BM 1: 468; Lenger D 107; Meerbeeck 4, 11; NI 509, 512, 516, 518; Plesch p. 204; PR 2345; SA p. 556. - Meyer, Gesch. Bot. 4: 342-343. 1857. - Oudemans, Ned. kruidk. Arch. ser. 2. 2: 217-220, 279-324. 1877. - Schierbeeck, Bloemlezing uit het Cruydt-boeck. Den Haag 1941. - Louis, Dodonaea 21: 235-280. 1954. - Wittop Koning, Rembertus Dodonaeus Cruyde-Boeck. Facsimile-herdruk van de oorspronkelijke uitgave van 1554. \[Introductory text\] Nieuwendijk 1971. - Sotheby, Cat. Stiftung Bot. 1: 182-183. 1975 (sold at £8000). ##### n.1483. Histoire des plantes **Title** *Histoire des plantes*, en laquelle est contenue la description entière des herbes, c'est-à-dire leurs espèces, forme, noms, tempérament, vertus & opérations: non seulement de celles qui croissent en ce païs, mais aussi des autres estrangeres qui viennent en usage de médecine. Par Rembert Dodoens, Médecin de la ville de Malines & nouvellement traduite de bas aleman en françois par Charles de l'Escluse. Antwerpen (Anvers) Jean Loë 1557. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Hist. pl.* **Notes** *Translation*: Carolus Clusius (Charles de l'Escluse) (1526-1609). *Publ*.: 1557, p. \[i-xxiv\], \[1\]-584 \[465 = 467, 467 = 476, 457 = 547, 549 = 560\], \[34, index\], \[1, err.\], 840 figs (133 new, fide NI). *Copies*: BR, G. Actually a second edition of the Cruydt-boeck because of the numerous additions. *Ref*.: BM 1: 468; Lenger D 109; Meerbeeck 4(3); NI 510; Plesch p. 204; PR 2345. ##### n.1484. Crüijdeboeck **Title** *Crüijdeboeck*. In den welcken die geheele historie / dat es tgheslacht / tfatsoen / naẽ / natuere, cracht ende werkinghe, van den cruyden, niet alleen hier te lande wassende, maar oock van dẽ anderẽ vremdẽ in der medicijnen oorboorlijck, met grooter neersticheyt begrepen ende verclaert es, met der selver cruyden natuerlijck naar dat leven conterfeytsel daer by ghestelt. Duer D. Rembert Dodoens. Medecijn van de stadt van Mechelen. Van nieuws oversien, ende met seer veel schoone nieuwe figueren vermeerdert. \[Antwerpen (Jan van der Loe) 1563\]. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Cruijdeb.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1563, p. \[i-xl\], i-dclxxxii, \[1-52, index\]; sign. MMM 1-4-QQQ, \[1\] *Copies*: BR, HU, MO, NY, U. *Ref*.: Lenger D 108; Meerbeeck 4(2); NI 512; PR 2345. ##### n.1485. Frumentorum, leguminum, palustrium et aquatilium herbarum **Title** *Frumentorum, leguminum, palustrium et aquatilium herbarum*, ac eorum, quae eò, pertinent, *historia*: Remberto Dodonaeo Mechliniensi medico auctore. Additae sunt imagines vivae, exactissimae, iam recens non absque haud vulgari diligentia & fide artificiosissimè espressae, quarum pleraeque novae, & hactenus non editae. Antwerpiae ex officina Christophori Plantini 1566. Cum privilegio. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Frument. legum. herb. hist.* **Notes** *Ed. 1*: 1566, p. \[1\]-271, \[index 1-7\], \[errors: 2 = 3, 10 = 100, 180 = 108, 635 = 165, 112 = 212\]. *Copies*: HU, MO, U. – The privilège is dated 1565. The 84 woodcuts are mostly by Pieter van der Borcht. *Ed. 2*: Antwerpen (Christophorus Plantijn) 1569, p. \[1\]-293, \[index 1-9\], \[2 = 3, 102 = = 101, 133 = 233, 185 = 285\]. *Copy*: G. – For extensive details see Lenger, "Historia frumentorum...." *Ref*.: BM 1: 468; HU 96-105; Lenger D 111-112; Meerbeeck 5; NI 513; Plesch p. 205; PR 2346. ##### n.1486. Florum, et coroniariarum odoratarumque nonnullarum herbarium historia **Title** *Florum, et coroniariarum odoratarumque nonnullarum herbarium historia*, Remberto Dodonaeo mechliniensi medico auctore. Antverpiae, ex officina Christophori Plantini. 1568. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. coroniar. hist.* **Notes** *Ed. 1*: 1568, p. \[1\]-308 \[308 err. "307"\], \[index 1-11\], 101 and 7 wood cuts in text, by Pieter van der Borcht. *Copies*: G, HU (1 ills. coloured, 2, uncol.), MO (ills. partly coloured). *Ed. 2*: Antwerpen (C. Plantijn) 1569, p. \[1\]-311 \[err. \[1\]-309, 308, 309\], \[index 7 p.\], \[1, impr.\] *Copies*: BR, G, HU, MO. – For details on changes etc. see Lenger. *Ref*.: BM 1: 468; HU 101, 104; Lenger D 113-114; Meerbeeck 6; NI 514; Plesch p. 205; PR 2347. ##### n.1487. Purgantium **Title** *Purgantium* aliarumque eo facientium, turn et radicum, conuoluulorum ac deleteriarum herbarum *historiae* libri iiii. Remberto Dodonaeo mechliniensi medico auctore. Accessit appendix variarũ & quidem rarissimarum nonnullarum stirpium, ac florum quorundam peregrinorum, elegantissimorumque icones omnino novas nec anteà editas, singulorumque breves descriptiones continens: cuius altera parte umbelliferae exhibentur non paucae, eodum auctore. Antverpiae, ex officina Christophori Plantini... 1574. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Purgant. hist.* **Notes** *Orig*.: 1574, p. \[1\]-505, \[506, err.\], \[index 1-5\]. *Copies*: BR, G(2), HU(2), MO(2). 39 of the 220 woodcuts are in common with Clusius, Rariorum aliquot stirpium per Hispanias observatarum historia, 1576. *Second issue*: 1576, mentioned with (?) by NI, but probably not existing (not in Lenger). *Ref*.: BM 1: 468; HU 116; Lenger D 115; Meerbeeck 7; NI 515; Plesch p. 205; PR 2348. ##### n.1488. A nievve herball **Title** *A nievve herball*, or historie of plantes: wherein is contayned the vvhole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of herbes and plantes: their divers and sundry kindes: their strange figures, fashions, and shapes: their names / natures / operations / and vertues: and that not onely of those whiche are here growying in this our countrie of Englands / but of all others also of forrayne realmes / commonly used 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 at London by my. Gerard Dewes, dwelling in Pawles Churchyards at the signe of the swanne 1578. Fol. \[Colophon: Imrinted at Antwerpe by me Henry Loë, and are to solde at London...\] **Abbreviated title**: *Nievve herball*. **Notes** *Translation*: by Henry Lyte (1529?-1607), based on 1557 french version. *Publ*.: 1578, p. \[i-xxiv\], 1-779, \[24\]. \[1\] (err. Page nos. 151-152 = (wrongly) 150-152, 162-164 = 162-162, 359-362 = 357-360). Colophon often with superimposed strip of paper "Imprinted" sometimes covering original "Imrinted." The first issue is characterised by the word "my" in... "at London by my. Gerard Dewes." (first HU copy). – This was later corrected to "me." *Copies*: HU (2nd), MO. – NI mentions 870 woodcuts. – Lenger states that this is the rarest of all Dodoens items. *Other issues* (all issued in London and without ills.): 1586 (Copy: MO); 1595 (Copy: HU); 1600; 1619 (one of the sources for Gerard's Herbal). *Ref*.: BM 1: 468; HU 132, 171; Lenger D 110; Meerbeeck 4(4); NI 516; Plesch p. 204-205. - Sotheby, Cat. Stiftung Bot. 1: 185. 1975 (sold at *£* 900). ##### n.1489. Stirpium historiae pemptades sex sive libri xxx **Title** Remberti Dodonaei mechliniensis medici caesarei *Stirpium historiae pemptades sex sive libri xxx*. Antverpiae \[Antwerpen\], ex officina Christophori Plantini. 1583. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Stirp. hist. pempt.* **Notes** *Ed. 1*: 1583, p. \[i-xix\], 1-860, \[1, err.\], \[1, err. pl.\], \[22, ind.\], \[i, priv.\] *Copies*: HU, NY, U. – The references in Linnaeus, Adanson, and Jussieu are usually to the *Pemptades*. Basis of the later Dutch editions as well as of Gerard's herbal of 1597. NI mentions 1309 woodcuts. *Ed. 2*: 1616, p. \[i-xvi\], 1-872, \[62, ind.\], \[2\], \[2\]. *Copies*: HU, MO. "Remberti Dodonaei ... xxx. Varie ab auctore, paullo ante mortem, aucti & emendati. Antverpiae ex officina plantiniana apud Balthasarem et Joannem Moretos. 1616. Fol. – NI mentions 1341 woodcuts. *Ref*.: BM 1: 468; HE p. 22; HU 143; 201; Lenger D 117, 119; LS 7219; Meerbeeck 11; NI 517; PR 2350; SA p. 556. - Courtois, Commentarius in Remberti Dodonaei Pemptades, Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 17(2): 763-840. 1835; cf. also Lejeune, Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 19(1): 385-406. 1839. - Roentgen, Bemerkungen zu Dodonaeus Leben und Schriften nebst einem Commentar zu dessen Werke: Stirpium pemptades sex. Würzburg 1842 (58 p.) - D'Avoine et Morren, Concordance des espèces végétales, Soc. Sci. Médic. Nat. Malin. 1850: 51-146. - Meyer, Gesch. Bot. 4: 340-350. 1857. - Arber, Herbals 82-83. 1953. ##### n.1490. Cruydt-boeck **Title** *Cruydt-boeck* van Rembertus Dodonaeus, volgens sijne laetste verbeteringe: met bij voegsels achter elck capittel, vvt verscheyden Cruydtbeschrijvers: Item in 't laetste een beschrijvinge van de Indiaensche gewassen meest getrocken wt de schriften van Carolus Clusius. Tot Leyden, in de Plantijnsche Druckerije van François van Ravelingen 1608. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Cruydt-boeck*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1608, p. \[i-viii\], 1-1580, \[24, uses; 55, ind. err.\] *Copies*: L, NY, Teyler. – This edition of the Cruydt-Boeck is actually a dutch translation of the *Stirpium histoirae pemptades sex* of 1583. *Ref*.: Lenger D 118; Meerbeeck 11; NI 518. - Engel, Ned. kruidk. Arch. 53: 46-55. 1943 (on some orig. drawings for this edition). ##### n.1491. Cruydt-boeck **Title** *Cruydt-boeck* van Rembertus Dodonaeus \[as in 1608 ed.\] Leiden (Plantyn, François van Ravelingen) 1618. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Cruydt-boeck*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1618, p. \[i-iv\], \[24, uses\], 1-1495, \[56, index\]. *Copies*: GRON, HU, NY. *Ref*.: Lenger D 120; Meerbeeck 11; NI 518; PR 2345. ##### n.1492. Cruydt-boeck Remberti Dodonaei **Title** *Cruydt-boeck Remberti Dodonaei*, volgens sijne laetste verbeteringhe: met bijvoegsels achter elk capitel, uyt verscheyden cruydt-beschrijvers: item, in 't laetste een beschrijvinghe van de Indiaensche ghewassen, meest ghetrocken uyt de schriften van Carolus Clusius. Nu wederom van Nieuws oversien ende verbetert. t'Antwerpen in de Plantijnsche druckerije van Balthasar Moretus 1644. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Cruydt-boeck*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1644, p. \[i-xxxvi\], 1-1492, ind. sign. A-F. *Copies*: MO, NY, U. – The last edition; on verso of t.p. a note stating that this edition is based on a copy of the 1618 editionin which Joost van Ravelinghen had made corrections and addenda. It is not clear whether this refers to printed addenda (already in the 1608 edition) or to new manuscript notes. *Ref*.: Lenger D 121; Meerbeeck 11; NI 518; PR 2345.