The title-pages of the early herbals were often decorated with such pictures. A more ambitious example is reproduced in Text-fig. [113]. In this case the apothecary’s store-room is also depicted, and a housewife is portrayed, laying fragrant herbs among linen. The small garden scene on the title-page of the ‘Grete Herball’ (1526) is of special interest, since it includes representations of the male and female Mandrake (Text-fig. [112]).
Plate V
‘Mandragora’ = Mandrake [Herbarium Apuleii Platonici, ? 1484].
The tint represents colouring, which was probably contemporary.
CHAPTER III
THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE HERBAL IN ENGLAND
1. The Herbarium of Apuleius Platonicus.
