> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 549](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120680) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1803-1) LSID 1803-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61844) QID Q61844 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Cordus, Valerius (1515-1544), German botanist. **Abbreviated name**: *V. Cordus* \[standard form in IPNI: *V.Cordus*\] #### Herbarium and types Cordus made no herbarium specimens. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 4: 479, 6: 794; Barnhart 1: 380; BM 1: 384; DTS 1: 50; GR p. 69; Jackson p. 25, 26; Kew 1: 617; LS 5905; NI 405 (see also suppl.); PR 1884-1885; Quenstedt p. 479; Saccardo 1: 56. - Buchenau, Abh. naturf. Ver. Bremen 2: 130-140. 1871. - Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 123. 1903, 3(3): 122. 1905. - Milner, Cat. portr. Kew 30. 1906. - Schulz, Mitt. thür. bot. Ver. ser. 2. 33: 37-66. 1916. - Marini Bettolo, Pharm. J., London 197(5377): 535-539. 1966. - Robinson, Nat. Hist. 75(3): 69-73. 1966. - Rauschert, Hercynia 4(3): 339-343. 1967. - Dann, Pharmaz. Zeit. 113: 1062-1072. 1968. - Schmitz, DSB 413-415. 1971 (bibl.) (extensive secondary references). #### Eponymy *Cordia* Linnaeus (1753). ### Publications ##### n.1231. Annotationes in Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de materia medica libros V **Title** *Annotationes in Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de materia medica libros V*. Cum ejusdem historis stirpium lib. iiii posthumi. Strasbourg 1561. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Annot. Diosc. mat. med.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Posthumously edited by C. Gesner. For a conspectus of the elements of this omnibus volume and for modern nomenclature see Sprague and Sprague (1939). The 1561 book is an emended version of Cordus' appendix to the 1549 edition of Dioscorides: "*Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, de medicinali materia libri sex*, Ioanne Ruellio svessionensi interprete. Accesserunt priori editioni, Valerii Cordi Simesvsii annotationes doctissimae in Dioscoridis de medica materia libros..." Frankfurt (Chr. Egenolph) \[1549\]. Fol. (see note to PR 1884). *Ref*.: BM 1: 384; DTS 1: 50; HE p. 20; Jackson p. 25; Kew 1: 617; Langman p. 219; NI 405; PR 1884; SA 2: 552; IDC 7330. - Meyer, Gesch. Bot. 4: 317-322. 1857. - Greene, Landmarks of botanical history 270-314. 1909. - Schulz, Mitt. thür. bot. Ver. ser. 2. 33: 37-66. 1916. - Sprague and Sprague, J. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 52: 1-113. 1939. - Bessler *in* L. Stern, 450 Jahre Martin Luther-Univ. Halle-Wittenberg 1: 323-333.