978 NORTH AMERICAN LINGUISTICS. 
Hernandez (Francisco) — continued. 
Philippi Secuadi primario Medico | Avthore. | Tractatvs Primvs>| 
De Qnadrupedibus Nouse Hispauise. | B. c. w. ba. htj. 
Pp. 1-90, Indices 3 11. folio. 
Contains the Mexican names with Latin equivalents, and wood-out engrav- 
• ings, of plants, pp. 1-459 ; of animals, pp. 460-840 ; followed by Annotationes et 
Additioues, pp. 841-899. Phytosophicarvm Tabvlarvm ex Frontispiciis Natura- 
lis Theatri Principis Feder. Caesii Lyncei . . . Para I., pp. 901-952. Vocumquo- 
rundam Americanarum explicatio, on the recto of the 12th leaf of the Index. 
The Historiae Animalium et Mineralium also contains the Mexican and Latin 
names. 
"There is a great deal of confusion in regard to the bibliographical as well as 
to the literary history of this work. Acosta, in his history printed in 1590, 
speaks of Dr. Hernandez' history, and of Nardo Antonio's abridgment of it; and 
to 'these books (probably meaning MSS.) and works refers those who wish for 
more particular information concerning the plants of the Indies, and their 
medicinal uses.' Leon Pinelo, in his Biblioteca, printed in 1629, says that it 
was already printed in Germany, and that Pedro de la Seyne, in his Homeri 
Nepenthes, also quoted it as printed. At page 460, there is an address to the 
reader, dated in Rome, 1625, which appears to have been placed instead of an 
address to Cardinal Barberini, with the same date, and in nearly the same words 
(both of which are in lay copy). AVhich shows that part of the work was prob- 
ably printed before 1644, when Innocent X. was made Pope, and expelled the 
Barberini, by whose means he had been elected, from Rome. A dedication to 
the same Cardinal, at page 903 (also in mine) without date, is supplied in moat 
copies by another to the Duke del Ivfantado, dated Some, 1651. In some copies, 
even the figure of the Dragon, at p. 816, dedicated also to Cardinal Barberini, is 
torn out. Some copies have a plant engraved on copper, at p. 213, and another at 
p. 301, but which are generally wanting: many copies have only the engraved 
title page; in some dated 1651, in others 1649. It appears probable that the 
body of the work -was printed in 1625; when a few copies got abroad, and that 
it was completed and some changes made, in 1649-51. 
" Hernandez was Physician to Philip II., by whom he was sent to Mexico to 
examine and describe its natural productions and ascertain their medicinal 
properties. He wrote a copious history in Latin, which was given to Nardo An- 
tonio Recco, a Neapolitan physician, for examination, who reduced it to a mod- 
erate compass. The original of this abridgment, with the censorship and ap- 
probation of Dr. Valle, by some singular chance, fell into the hands of the 
Dominican Friar, Francisco Ximenez, in Mexico, by whom it was translated 
into Spanish, and printed in that city in 4to in 1615. This work corresponds 
almost exactly to the X books published in Rome, in 1648-51, but both difler 
materially from the Plant. Nov. Hisp., &c., xjublished by Ortega, from Hernandez' 
manuscripts in 1790. Most of the original MSS. of Hernandez were destroyed 
by the fire at the Escurial in 1671. There is extant a MS. translation of Plmy 
by Hernandez. Very little is known respecting his life, although much more 
worthy of a niche in the temple of Fame than many of his cotemporaries. Like 
his early friend and companion Ambrosio de Morales, he probably flourished 
during the greater part of the 16th century. His native place was Toledo." — 
iJic/i,^j). 73-74. 
1770 a Hester (Joseph Goodman). Words, phrases, and sentences in 
the' Cherokee language. 
Manuscript. Pp. 77-228 and 4 11. containing local geographic names, etc. 
with English translation. 4°. In the possession of the author, Washington, 
