Kilka uwag o historii nazw ziół z poradnika Piotra Krescencjusza (1571)

The analysed handbook is a Polish translation of Piotr Krescencjusz’s latin books de Ruralia commoda that were very popular in medieval Europe. The books were printed for the fi rst time in 1471, 150 years after the author’s death. Translated into many languages, the books were printed subsequently in Polish in 1549 and 1571. The subject of the work is 65 names for 29 herbs, all coming from the 2nd part of IV book entitled Wtora czesc o rzeczach ogrodnych/ które nie tak ku pokarmowi jako dla lekarstwa albo tez dla lubosci bywaja chowane. The collected names were compared with the Latin version, the fi rst Polish edition and other historical herbals, for example manuscripts compiled by J. Rostafi ński, books about herbs by M. Siennik, S. Falimirz, K. Kluk, B.S. Jundzicz. The analysis of the material focuses both on the correlation between the translation of original Latin edition and Polish historical names and on the originality of herbal names surviving up to modern times.