The Old English Herbals

by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

1581. (Flemish translation.) Kruydtboeck.... Deur Matthias de L’Obel Medecyn der Princ’ exc^en. T’Antwerpen. By Christoffel Plantyn.

(The Flemish translation is dedicated to William of Orange and the Burgomasters of Antwerp.)

Leonhardt Thurneisser zum Thurn.

1578. Historia sive descriptio plantarum.... Berlini Excudebat Michael Hentzke.

Second edition, 1587.... Coloniæ Agrippinæ apud Joannem Gymnicum.

1578. (German translation.) Historia unnd Beschreibung Influentischer Elementischer und Natürlicher Wirckungen, Aller fremden unnd Heimischen Erdgewechssen ... Gedruckt zu Berlin, bey Michael Hentzsken.

(Thurneisser was one of the foremost exponents of astrological botany. He gives astrological diagrams showing when the various herbs should be picked. The illustrations are not particularly good, but they are attractive owing to the quaint ornamental border which surrounds each figure.)

Andrea Cesalpino.

1583. De plantis libri xvi. Florentiæ Apud Georgium Marescottum.

Geofroy Linocier.