> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 130](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355217) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/5688-1) LSID 5688-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1860320) QID Q1860320 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author L'Obel, Mathias de \[Lobel, Lobelius\] (1538-1616), Flemish botanist; worked with Rondelet at Montpellier 1565-1566; from 1566-1572 in England; from 1572-1584 in the Netherlands, from 1584 again in England; botanist to James I; curator of Lord Edward Zouche's garden at Hackney. **Abbreviated name**: *Lobel* \[standard form in IPNI: *Lobel*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection NO|NO]] herbarium material known to be extant. Legré states that after Rondelet's death in 1566, Pena and l'Obel went to London, taking their herbaria with them. At the time of l'Obel's stay with Rondelet at Montpellier herbaria were being made by Rondelet and his disciples. #### Bibliography and biography AG 1: 249; Backer p. 333; Barnhart 2: 394; BB p. 191; Blunt p. 300; BM 3: 1160, 4: 1541; Bossert p. 241; Desmond p. 391; Dryander 5: 335; DSB 8: 435-436; Frank 3(Anh.): 60; GR p. 97; Hegi 4 (1): 160, 6 (1): 392; Henrey 1: 284, 2: 374; Herder p. 82, 83, 408; HU 126, 127, 183; Jackson p. 27, 28, 574; JW 1: 446, 2: 196, 3: 360, 4: 396, 5: 245 (q.v. for several unusual sources); Kew 3: 478; Langmanp. 452; Lasègue p. 15, 574; LS 15785; Moebius 24, 32, 37, 120, 142; NI 1218-1220; Oudemans 2: 221; Plesch p. 313-314; PR 5548-5550; Rehder 5: 518; Saccardo cron. p. xxv; TL-2/4308; Tucker 1: 437. - Arber, A., Herbals 318 \[index\]. 1953. - Cavillier, F. G., Boissiera 5: 60-61. 1941. - Druce, G. C., Fl. Buckinghamshire lxviii-lxix. 1926; Fl. Oxfordshire ed. 2. lxiii. 1927. - Gunther, R. T., Early English botanists 245-253, ind. 1922 (portr.). - Irmisch, T., Bot. Zeit. 23: 299-300. 1865. - Jeffers, R. H., Friends of John Gerard 1967. - Jermyn, S. T., Fl. Essex 14. 1974. - Jessen, K. F. W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorzeit. 484 \[index\]. 1884. - Jourdan, A. J. L., Dict. Sci. méd., Biogr. méd. 6: 86-87. 1824. - Kent, D. H., Hist. fl. Middlesex 12. 1975. - Legré, L., P. Pena & M. de Lobel, Marseille 1899, viii, 263 p. (La botanique en Provence au xvie siècle). - Louis, A., Biol. Jaarb. Dodonaea 24: 182-206. 1957. - Mägdefrau, K., Gesch. Bot. 30, 37, 40, 259. 1973. - Martens, Jard. Plantes Montpellier 5, 11, 12. 1854. - Meyer, E. H. F., Gesch. Bot. 4: 358-366. 1857. - Milner, J. D., Cat. Portr. Kew 80. 1906. - Morren, Ch., Belgique hortic. 2: v-xix. 1852 (portr.). - Morren, E., Mathias de l'Obel, sa vie & ses oeuvres, 1530-1616. Liège 1875, 25 p. (Bull. Féd. Soc. Hort. Belg. 1875). - Pulteney, R., Sketches 1: 96-109. 1790. - Raven, C. E., Engl. naturalists 235-240. 1947. - Riddelsdéll, Fl. Gloucestershire cix. 1948. - Sachs, J. v., Hist. botanique 5, 22, 32, 67. 1892. - Trimen and Dyer, Flora of Middlesex 369. 1869. - White, J. W., Fl. Bristol 48-50. 1872 (1912?) #### Composite works Edited Dodoens, *Stirpium historiae pemptades sex*,1583. (TL-2/1489). #### Eponymy (genera) *Bolelia*Rafinesque (1832, *nom. rej.*; anagram); *Lobelia* Linnaeus (1753); *Lobelia* P. Miller (1754); *Lobeliaepollenites* E. Nagy (1969); (journal): *Lobelia*see under C. E. Morren. ### Publications ##### n.4906. Stirpium adversaria nova **Title** *Stirpium adversaria nova*, perfactis vestigatio luculemtaque accessio ad priscorum, presertim Dioscoridis & recentiorum, materiam medicam. Quibus propediem accedet altera pars... authoribus. Petro Pena& Mathia de Lobel, medicis. \[Londini 1571\]. Fol. (in tern.) **Abbreviated title**: *Stirp. advers.* **Notes** *Co-author*: Pierre Pena (ca. 1535-ca. 1600). *Publ*.: Jan 1571 \[p. \[458\]), p. \[i-xxi\], 1-455, \[456-458\] *Copy*: USDA. *Printer*: Purfoot. *Ed. 2*: 1576, see below, *Pl. stirp. hist.* *Other ed*.: 1605 (front., priv. (1),ded. (2), poem (1),corr. (3), Clariss. et honorabilis... \[1\]-156, Diluc. simpl. (2), in stirp. adv. index. (11), Stirp. adv. nova 1-549). *Copy*: FI (inf. C. Steinberg, see also BM 3: 1160; Junk. Cat. 214: no. 200. 1979). ##### n.4907. Plantarum seu stirpium historia **Title** *Plantarum seu stirpium historia*, Matthiae de Lobel Insularii. Cui annexum est adversariiorum volumen. Reliqua sequens pagina indicabit. Antverpiae \[Antwerpen\], (ex officina Christophori Plantini Architypographi regii) 1576. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl. stirp. hist.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1576, p. \[1\]-671 (i. e. 676: many pages wrongly numbered). *Adversaria*1576 (coloph. 7 calend. Aug 1576), p. \[i-iv\], 1-471, Form, remed. 1-15, indices 1-14, \[15-26\], \[1-3 ills.\]. "*Nova stirpium adversaria*perfacilis vestigatio luculentaque accessio ad priscorum, praesertim Dioscoridis & recentiorum, materiam medicam: auctoribus Petro Pena et Matthia de Lobel... quibus accessit appendix cum indice variarum linguarum locupletissimo eodem M. de Lobel auctore. Additis Guillielmi Rondelletii aliquot remediorum formulis, nunquam antehac in lucem editis." Antverpiae (apud Christophorum Plantinum...) 1576. Qu. (*Nov. stirp. advers.*) *Co-author of adversaria*: Pierre Pena (ca. 1535-ca. 1600). For a first version of these *Adversaria *see above, no. 4906. *Author of Form, remed*.: Guillaume Rondelet (1507-1566). *Copies*: BR, MO, NY. Copies vary. For further details and a precise collation see e.g. HU 126 and 127; Sotheby 468 for a different issue of the preface; NI 1218 on illustrations. ##### n.4908. Kruydtboeck **Title** *Kruydtboeck*oft beschrijvinghe van allerleye ghewassen, kruyderen, hesteren, ende gheboomten: deur Matthias De L'Obel... t'Antwerpen (by Christoffel Plantyn) 1581. Fol. (in tern.) **Abbreviated title**: *Kruydtb.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1581 (p. \[x\]:1 Mai 1581), p. \[i-xii\], 1-994, 1-312, 1-15, \[1-64, indexes\], *2 pl. –*Over 2100 woodcuts (250 bought from Purfoot). *Copies*: BR, MO, U(2); IDC 7669. – See Sotheby 469 for a collation of the former Plesch copy, and Voet (1972) for a note on coloured copies. – Dutch version of the *Pl. stirp. hisl.* *Ref*.: Voct. L., The golden compases 2: 243, 288. 1972 (1974). ##### n.4909. Plantarum seu slirpium icones **Title** *Plantarum seu slirpium icones*. Antverpiac \[Antwerpen\] (ex officina Christophori Plantini, architypographi regii) 1581. Qu. oblong. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl. icon.* **Notes** Publ.: 1581 (p. \[iv\]: Jun 1581), p. \[i-viii\], 1-816; 1-280, \[1-33, indexes, sign. Tt-Xx4 Yy6\]. *Copies*: BR, G, L, M, NY; IDC 7676. Anonymous, traditionally, but crroncously attributed to Lobel. The initiative to republish these 2173 woodcut illustrations without text (except for an introductory letter by Plantyn, indexes and names) was taken by Gobelius, physician to the Duke of Prussia; the execution was by Plantyn (sec Louis 1957, p. 188). For collation see e.g. HU 138; for ills. see NI 1220. *Reissue* (1): 1591, p. \[i-viii\], 1-816, 1-280, \[1-54 indexes, sign. + – 7 + 4\]. *Copies*: BR, FI, G, MO, NY.– "*Icones stirpium*" seu plantarum tarn exoticarum, quam indigenarum, in gratiam rei herbariae studiosorum in duas partes digestac. Cum septem linguarum indicibus, ad diversarum nationum usum. Antverpiae \[Antwerpen\] 1591. (*Icon. stirp.*) *Reissue*(*2*): 1655, p. \[i-xxxviii\], 1-170. *Copies*: FI, NY. – Matthiae de L'Obel M. D. Botanographi regii eximii *Stirpium illustrationes*. Plurimas elaborantes inauditas plantas, subreptitiis Joh: Parkinsoni rapsodiis (ex codice MS in salutato) sparsim gravatac. Ejusdem adjecta sunt ad calcem Theatri botanici... Accurante Guil: How, Anglo. Londini (typis Tho: Warren,... ) 1655. Qu. (*Stirp. ill.*). *Ref*.: Arber, A., Herbals 91, 176, 280. 1953.