Le grant herbier en francoys: contenant les qualitez: vertus, & proprietez des herbes, arbres, gommes, semences: huyles, et pierres precieuses, extrait & plusieurs traictez de medecine . Paris: Jehan Janot , n.d. [c. 1520].
Le grant herbier en francoys: contenant les qualitez: vertus, & proprietez des herbes, arbres, gommes, semences: huyles, et pierres precieuses, extrait & plusieurs traictez de medecine . Paris: Jehan Janot , n.d. [c. 1520]. Small 4° (180 x 122mm). Gothic type, double column. Title in red and black with calligraphic letter and large vignette, half-page woodcut on DD6v, 300 cuts of one column width, Lombard initials, Janot’s device on verso of final leaf. (Washed, some light residual soiling, top margins close cut, some marginal repairs, H5-7 remargined in the lower part, H8 remargined in the upper part with the running title mainly renewed in pen facsimile.) Dark green morocco with yapp edges by Lobstein-Laurenchet, spine and covers ruled in blind, gilt spine lettering and edges. A RARE, EARLY EDITION IN FRENCH, PRINTED IN GOTHIC TYPE, OF A CELEBRATED AND PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED HERBAL. Since Antiquity, most available drugs derived from plants so that herbaria were not only botanical treatises but also pharmacopoeia. One of the most famous works in the Middle Ages was the Circa Instans of the Salerno doctor Mattheus Platearius (12th century). His text was reworked in the early 14th century in the Tractatus Herbis attributed to Barthomaeus Mino of Senis, which augmented the book with chapters from the Herbarius by the pseudo-Apuleius. From the 1480s, many herbals where published in various European countries under the title Herbarius and Ortus Sanitatis in Latin, Gart der Gesundheit in German and Arbolayre or Grand herbarium in French. All are derived from ancient texts composed by Platearius and Mino of Senis. In all of these treatises, the illustrations play an important role, as each plant is represented: the present Grand herbarium is profusely illustrated with 300 woodcuts in the text, some representing animals. Nissen 2333; Pritzel 10762. (No collation found; it has a different collation to the Janot c. 1521 edition in BnF which is Renouard, Marque de Jean Janot , 474)
Le grant herbier en francoys: contenant les qualitez: vertus, & proprietez des herbes, arbres, gommes, semences: huyles, et pierres precieuses, extrait & plusieurs traictez de medecine . Paris: Jehan Janot , n.d. [c. 1520].
Le grant herbier en francoys: contenant les qualitez: vertus, & proprietez des herbes, arbres, gommes, semences: huyles, et pierres precieuses, extrait & plusieurs traictez de medecine . Paris: Jehan Janot , n.d. [c. 1520]. Small 4° (180 x 122mm). Gothic type, double column. Title in red and black with calligraphic letter and large vignette, half-page woodcut on DD6v, 300 cuts of one column width, Lombard initials, Janot’s device on verso of final leaf. (Washed, some light residual soiling, top margins close cut, some marginal repairs, H5-7 remargined in the lower part, H8 remargined in the upper part with the running title mainly renewed in pen facsimile.) Dark green morocco with yapp edges by Lobstein-Laurenchet, spine and covers ruled in blind, gilt spine lettering and edges. A RARE, EARLY EDITION IN FRENCH, PRINTED IN GOTHIC TYPE, OF A CELEBRATED AND PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED HERBAL. Since Antiquity, most available drugs derived from plants so that herbaria were not only botanical treatises but also pharmacopoeia. One of the most famous works in the Middle Ages was the Circa Instans of the Salerno doctor Mattheus Platearius (12th century). His text was reworked in the early 14th century in the Tractatus Herbis attributed to Barthomaeus Mino of Senis, which augmented the book with chapters from the Herbarius by the pseudo-Apuleius. From the 1480s, many herbals where published in various European countries under the title Herbarius and Ortus Sanitatis in Latin, Gart der Gesundheit in German and Arbolayre or Grand herbarium in French. All are derived from ancient texts composed by Platearius and Mino of Senis. In all of these treatises, the illustrations play an important role, as each plant is represented: the present Grand herbarium is profusely illustrated with 300 woodcuts in the text, some representing animals. Nissen 2333; Pritzel 10762. (No collation found; it has a different collation to the Janot c. 1521 edition in BnF which is Renouard, Marque de Jean Janot , 474)
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