This funeral tablet on a column of the Pieterskerk in Leiden remembers Rembert Dodoens who was buried here in 1585 (1).
The Latin inscription reads as follows: “D.O.M. / REMBERTO DODONAEO MACHLIN. / D. MAXIMILIANI II, ET RUDOLPHI II, IMPP. / MEDICO ET CONSILIARIO: / CUIUS IN RE ASTRONOMICA, HERB. MEDIC. / ERUDITIO SCRIPTIS INCLARUIT, / QUI IAM SENEX IN ACAD. LUGDUNENSI / APUD BATAVOS PUBLICUS, / MEDICINAE PROFESSOR FELICITER OBIIT / A. CIƆ IƆ LXXXV, AD VI, IDUS MART. / AETATIS SUAE LXVIII, / REMBERTUS DODONAEUS / FIL. M. P.”
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Bibliography
- Frieke Hurkmans et al. (eds), History of the Pieterskerk Leiden, Pieterskerk Leiden Foundation, Leiden undated [c. 2020], pp. 74