Petrus Gyllius

Petrus Gyllius was a French naturalist, translator, philosopher, geographer, scholar and writer (1490–1555). He was born at Albi and died at Rome.

Also recorded as Petrus Ægidius.

Petrus Gyllius in brief

Born
1490
Died
1555
Known for
naturalist, translator, philosopher, geographer, scholar and writer
Place of birth
Albi
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Catalogued works

4 works under this name are catalogued by Open Library and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1535 to 1616.

Antiquities of Constantinople. Aeliani De historia animalium libri XVII / Quos ex integro ac veteri exemplari Graeco, Petrus Gillius vertit. Unà cum elephantorum descriptione. Item Demetrii De cura accipitrum, & De cura & medicina canum, eodem Petro Gillio interprete., dated 1565, held by Wellcome Collection. De animalium natura libri XVII / Petro Gillio et Conrado Gesnero interpretibus., dated 1616, held by Wellcome Collection. Ex Aeliani historia per Petrum Gyllium latini facti, itemque ex Porphyrio, Heliodoro, Oppiano, tum eodem Gyllio luculentis accessionibus aucti libri XVI. De ui et natura animalum. Eiusdem Gyllii liber unus de gallicis et latinis nominibus piscium / [Claudius Aelian]., dated 1535, held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 4 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

2 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Piotr Gilles – szesnastowieczny pierwowzór Indiany Jonesa, czyli o niebezpieczeństwach podróży badawczych, Facta Simonidis, 2024. Zoologie et philologie dans les grands traités ichtyologiques renaissants, Kentron, 2013.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 12 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 4 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 4 means 4 genuinely separate publishers of record. 16 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1490Petrus Gyllius born at Albi.
  2. 1535Ex Aeliani historia per Petrum Gyllium latini facti, itemque ex Porphyrio, Heliodoro, Oppiano, tum eodem Gyllio luculentis accessionibus aucti libri XVI. De ui et natura animalum. Eiusdem Gyllii liber unus de gallicis et latinis nominibus piscium / [Claudius Aelian]. (Wellcome Collection).
  3. 1555Petrus Gyllius died at Rome.
  4. 1565Aeliani De historia animalium libri XVII / Quos ex integro ac veteri exemplari Graeco, Petrus Gillius vertit. Unà cum elephantorum descriptione. Item Demetrii De cura accipitrum, & De cura & medicina canum, eodem Petro Gillio interprete. (Wellcome Collection).

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    Open Library author record for Petrus Gyllius (Internet Archive), 1 catalogued work.

    Institutional database · Scholarly · Internet Archive

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  2. 2.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 2 articles naming Petrus Gyllius.

    open access index · Unverified

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  3. 3.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 4 works naming Petrus Gyllius.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  4. 4.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q2292575: Petrus Gyllius

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata

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  5. 5.

    “Petrus Gyllius”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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