Template:RQ:Topsell Foure-footed Beastes/documentation

Usage

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Edward Topsell's work The Historie of Fovre-footed Beastes (1st edition, 1607). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |chapter= – mandatory in some cases: the name of the chapter quoted from. If quoting from one of the following chapters not from the main part of the work, the value indicated in the first column of the following table must be specified to have the template link to the online version of the work:

Parameter value	Result
Epistle Dedicatory	To the Reverend and Right Worshipfvll Richard Neile, D. of Divinity, Deane of Westminster, […]
Gesner 1	The First Epistle of Doct. Conradus Gesnerus [i.e., Conrad Gessner] before His History of Foure-footed-Beastes, Concerning the Vtility of This Story
Gesner 2	Conradus Gesnerus to the Reader

As the above chapters not from the main part of the work do not have page numbers, use |2= or |page= to specify the "page number" assigned by the Internet Archive to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL is https://archive.org/details/TheHistoryOfFourFootedBeastsAndSerpents1658/TheHistoryOfFourFootedBeasts1607/page/n1/mode/1up, specify |page=1.

• |2= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the main part of the work, the page number(s) quoted from. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11.
  • You must also use |pageref= to specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

You must specify this information to have the template link to the online version of the work.

• |3=, |text=, or |passage= – a passage to be quoted from the work.
• |footer= – a comment on the passage quoted.
• |brackets= – use |brackets=on to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.

Examples

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Topsell Foure-footed Beastes|chapter=Of the Elephant|page=194|passage=[I]t is moſt certaine, that after ''{{w|Herodotus}}'' and other auncient vvriters, it is ſafer to call theſe [elephants' tusks] teeth, then hornes; and I vvill breefly ſet dovvne the reaſons of ''[[w:Philostratus|Philoſtratus]]'', that vvill haue them to be teeth, and aftervvard of ''Grapaldus'' [''i.e.'', Francesco Mario Grapaldi], ''[[w:Claudius Aelianus|Aelianus]]'', and ''[[w:Pausanias (geographer)|Pauſanias]]'', that vvould make them horns, and ſo leaue the reader to conſider vvhether opinion he thinketh moſt agreeable to truth. {{...}} Thus they '''argument''' for the horns of Elephants.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Topsell Foure-footed Beastes|Of the Elephant|194|[I]t is moſt certaine, that after ''{{w|Herodotus}}'' and other auncient vvriters, it is ſafer to call theſe [elephants' tusks] teeth, then hornes; and I vvill breefly ſet dovvne the reaſons of ''[[w:Philostratus|Philoſtratus]]'', that vvill haue them to be teeth, and aftervvard of ''Grapaldus'' [''i.e.'', Francesco Mario Grapaldi], ''[[w:Claudius Aelianus|Aelianus]]'', and ''[[w:Pausanias (geographer)|Pauſanias]]'', that vvould make them horns, and ſo leaue the reader to conſider vvhether opinion he thinketh moſt agreeable to truth. {{...}} Thus they '''argument''' for the horns of Elephants.}}
• Result:
  • 1607, Edward Topsell, “Of the Elephant”, in The Historie of Fovre-footed Beastes. […], London: […] William Iaggard, →OCLC, page 194:

    [I]t is moſt certaine, that after Herodotus and other auncient vvriters, it is ſafer to call theſe [elephants' tusks] teeth, then hornes; and I vvill breefly ſet dovvne the reaſons of Philoſtratus, that vvill haue them to be teeth, and aftervvard of Grapaldus [i.e., Francesco Mario Grapaldi], Aelianus, and Pauſanias, that vvould make them horns, and ſo leaue the reader to conſider vvhether opinion he thinketh moſt agreeable to truth. […] Thus they argument for the horns of Elephants.