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Holland, Philemon, 1552-1637


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    • P. H. (Philemon Holland), 1552-1637
    • H., P. (Philemon Holland), 1552-1637

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    • found: LCCN 06-21828: Regimen sanitatis Salerni. Regimen sanitatis Salerni, 1634(hdg.: Holland, Philemon, 1552-1637)
    • found: LC data base, 1-7-85(hdg.: Holland, Philemon, 1552-1637; usage: Philemon Holland)
    • found: LCCN 34-18720: Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum. English. Regimen sanitatis Salerni, 1649(hdg.: Holland, Philemon, 1552-1637; usage: P.H., dr. in physicke, deceased; variant: Dr. Philemon Holland)
    • found: Plutarch. The philosophie, commonlie called, The morals, 1603:title page (Philemon Holland of Coventrie, Doctor in Physicke; translated out of Greeke into English, and conferred with the Latine translations and the French) first sequence, unnumbered page 5, leaf [par.]3 recto (Philémon Holland)
    • found: Oxford dictionary of national biography, 9 January 2018(Holland, Philemon (1552-1637), translator; schoolmaster-physician; born in 1552, probably on 6 November, in Chelmsford, Essex; from about 1568 became a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he received the BA in 1571; elected to a minor fellowship in 1573, a major fellowship in 1574; moved to Coventry, became usher (junior master) at the free school (now King Henry VIII School, Coventry); in 1585, was incorporated MA at Oxford; in 1597, degree of MD from Cambridge and began to practise medicine; classical translations of some major surviving prose works, together with some important recent European scholarly apparatus; translated Livy's history of Rome, the first complete rendering into English (published 1600); as part of this book, translated an ancient epitome of Roman history, which provides an outline of the lost books of Livy, and Bartolomeo Marliani's guide to the topography of Rome, as well as some smaller texts; translation of the elder Pliny: The Historie of the World, Commonly called, the Naturall Historie (1601); in 1603, turned from Latin to Greek, the first English translation of Plutarch's Moralia; Historie of Twelve Caesars, from the Latin of Suetonius (1606); translation of another Roman history, the extant books of Ammianus Marcellinus's history (1609); in 1610, completed a translation of William Camden's Britannia and added some material from his own knowledge; in 1612, admitted to the freedom of the city of Coventry; a supplement to Thomas Thomas's Latin dictionary of about 6000 previously unrecorded words and meaning (1615); translation into Latin of John Speed's The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, Theatrum imperii Magnae Britanniae (1616); in 1617, translated the medieval medical verse text Regimen sanitatis Salerni, published with a new edition of Thomas Paynell's translation of the commentary by Arnaldus of Villanova, for a popular market; in 1632 his translation of Xenophon's Cyropaedia was published, together with a reprint of his son Abraham's poem on the battle of Lepanto, in a volume edited by his son Henry; died, in Coventry, on 9 February 1637; buried in Holy Trinity Church, Coventry; his translation from French into Latin of Brice Bauderon's Pharmacopoea was published posthumously (1639) by Henry Holland; his translations were widely circulated and read into the 18th century; children included the poet Abraham Holland, the publisher and miscellaneous writer Henry Holland, and the print publisher Compton Holland)

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    • 1985-01-29: new
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