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Boaistuau, Pierre (1517-1566)
Boaistuau, Pierre (1517-1566)Date: [1559]Reference: MS.136- Digital Images
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Wild man or monster born on the borders of England and Normandy.
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Leeches. Histoires Prodigieuses, Pierrie Boaistuau
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Bref discours de l'excellence et dignité de l'homme : 1558 / Pierre Boaistuau ; éditions critique par Michel Simonin.
Boaistuau, Pierre, -1566.Date: 1982- Books
Histoires prodigieuses : MS 136 Wellcome Library / Pierre Boaistuau ; sous la direction de Stephen Bamforth.
Boaistuau, Pierre, -1566.Date: 2000- Books
Histoires prodigieuses (édition de 1561) : édition critique / Pierre Boaistuau ; introduction par Stephen Bamforth ; texte établi par Stephen Bamforth et annoté par Jean Céard.
Boaistuau, Pierre, -1566.Date: 2010- Books
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Certaine secrete wonders of nature, containing a descriptiõ of sundry strange things, seming monstrous in our eyes and iudgement, bicause we are not priuie to the reasons of them. Gathered out of diuers learned authors as well Greeke as Latine, sacred as prophane / [By Pierre Boaistuau. Translated] By E. Fenton.
Boaistuau, Pierre, -1566.Date: 1569- Books
Histoires prodigieuses extraictes de plusieurs fameux auteurs, grecs & latins, sacrez & prophanes / mises en nostre langue par P. Boaistuau, sournommé Launay, natif de Bretagne. Augmentées outre les précédentes impressions de six histoires advennues de nostre temps adjoustées par F. de Belle-forest comingeois, avec les portraicts & figures.
Boaistuau, Pierre, -1566.Date: 1575- Books
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Theatrum mundi : The theatre or rule of the world, wherin may be seene the running race & course of euery mans life, as touching miserie and felicitie, wherein be contained wonderfull examples and learned deuises, to the ouerthrovv of vice and exalting of vertue. Wherevnto is added a learned and pithie worke of the excellency of man, written in the French and Latine tongues by Peter Boaistuau, Englished by Iohn Alday, and by him perused, corrected and amended, the olde translation being corrupted.
Boaistuau, Pierre, -1566Date: 1581- Books
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The theatre of the world: or, a prospect of humane misery : Wherein is set forth an ample discourse of those numerous and unavoidable calamities which are the inseparable attendants of mankind, from the cradle to the tomb. Composed first in Latin by Peter Boyatuau, a Britain by birth, and afterwards done into French by himself. Whereunto is added a brief discourse of the dignity and excellency of man. Translated iuto [sic] English by G.R. Licensed Sept. 14. 1678. W. Jane.
Boaistuau, Pierre, -1566Date: 1679- Books
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Histoires prodigieuses extraictes de plusieurs fameux auteurs, grecs& latins, sacrez& prophanes / mises en nostre langue par P. Boaistuau, sournommé Launay, natif de Bretagne. Augmentées outre les précédentes impressions de six histoires advennues de nostre temps adjoustées par F. de Belle-forest comingeois, avec les portraicts& figures ...
Anon.Date: 1575- Books
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Histoires prodigieuses extraictes de plusieurs fameux auteurs, grecs & latins, sacrez & prophanes / mises en nostre langue par P. Boaistuau, sournommé Launay, natif de Bretagne. Augmentées outre les précédentes impressions de six histoires advennues de nostre temps adjoustées par F. de Belle-forest comingeois, avec les portraicts & figures ...
Anon.Date: 1575- Books
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Het toonneel ofte spiegel des aert-bodems, waer-inne te sien is een heerlijcke vertooningh van alle ons menschen elendigheyt, bewesen met veel aerdighe historien-feerst beschreven in de Fransche tale door P. Boystuau, anders Launay,ende nu op nieus overgeset in onse Nederlantsche spraeck met een kort verhael van de weerdigheyt der menschen
Boaistuau, Pierre -1566Date: 1648- Books
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Le theatre du monde, ou il est faict vn ample discours des miseres humaines / Composé en latin par P. Boaystuau, surnommé Launay, puis traduit par luy-mesme en François. Avec vn brief discours de l'excellence & dignité de l'homme.
Boaistuau, Pierre, -1566Date: M. D. LXXXVII [1587]- Books
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The theatre of the world : in the which is discoursed at large the many miseries and frailties incident to mankinde in this mortall life : with a discourse of the excellency and dignity of mankinde, all illustrated and adorned with choice stories taken out of both Christian and heathen authors ... / being a work of that famous French writer, Peter Bovistau Launay, in three distinct books ; formerly translated into Spanish by Baltazar Peres del Castillo ; and now into English by Francis Farrer.
Boaistuau, Pierre, -1566Date: 1663- Books
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Theatrum mundi : the theatre or rule of the vvorlde, vvherein may be seene the running race and course of euery mans life, as touching miserie and felicitie, wherin be contained wonderfull examples and learned deuises, to the ouerthrow of vice, and exalting of vertue. VVherevnto is added a learned and pitthie worke of the excellencie of mankynd. Written in the French and Latin tongues by Peter Boaystuau, Englished by Iohn Alday.
Boaistuau, Pierre, -1566Date: Anno. 1574- Books
Historias prodigiosas y maravillosas de diversos sucessos acaescidos en el mundo / Escriptas en lengua francesa ... Traducidas en romance castellano por Andrea Pescioni.
Boaistuau, Pierre, -1566Date: 1586- Books
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Theatrum mundi : the theatre or rule of the world, wherein may be sene the running race and course of euerye mans life, as touching miserie and felicity, wherin be contained wonderfull examples, learned deuises, to the ouerthrowe of vice, and exalting of vertue. wherevnto is added a learned, and maruellous worke of the excellencie of mankinde. Written in the Frenche & Latin tongues by Peter Boaystuau, and translated into English by Iohn Alday.
Boaistuau, Pierre, -1566Date: [1566?]- Books
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Histoires prodigieuses, extraictes de plusieurs fameux autheurs, grecs et latins, sacrez et prophanes ... / nouvellement augmentées de quatorze histoires par Claude de Tesserant.
Boaistuau, Pierre, -1566Date: 1568- Books
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Le theatre du monde : ou il est faict vn ample discours des miseres humaines: composé en Latin par P. Boaystuau, surnommé Launay, puis traduit par luy-mesme en françois. Auec vn brief discours de l'excellence & dignité de l'homme.
Boaistuau, Pierre, -1566Date: M.D.XCV. [1595]- Pictures
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Dionysius of Heraclea, an obese man applying leeches to his arms in order to lose weight. Reproduction of a woodcut.
Reference: 331i- Pictures
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A surgeon performing a Caesarean operation on an agonized woman who had apparently been carrying a dead baby in her womb for five years. Reproduction, 1933, of a woodcut, 1560.
Date: [1933]Reference: 16936i- Pictures
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Three human figures, each with superfluous body parts growing from their bodies. Engraving, 16--.
Date: [between 1600 and 1699?]Reference: 88i- Archives and manuscripts
Corporate photography shoots C0006179 - C0007933
Date: 1998-2001Reference: WT/B/11/1/34Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive