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The Grete Herball whiche geueth parfyt knowledge and vnderstandyng of all maner of herbes & there gracyous vertues whiche god hath ordeyned for our prosperous welfare and helth, for they hele & cure all maner of dyseases and sekenesses that fall or mysfortune to all maner of creatoures of god created, practysed by many expert and wyse maysters, as Avicenna & other. &c. Also it geueth full parfyte vnderstandynge of the booke lately prentyd by me (Peter treueris) named the noble experiens of the vertuous handwarke of surgery.

Accession number
PML 25985
Published
[London : Peter Treveris, 1526]
Credit line
Purchased in 1928.
Notes
Contains a treatise on urines and an index to remedies.
"LThe exposicyõ of the wordes obscure and euyll knowen": pages [325-330].
First English illustrated herbal.
Colophon: Imprentyd at London in Southwarke by me Peter Treueris, dwellynge in the sygne of the wodows. In the yere of our lorde god M.D.xxvi. the xxvii day of July.
Illustrated title-page printed in red and black; initials; printer's device within ornamental border above colophon.
"With the exception of the preface and the treatise on urines, the Grete Herball is a translation of the French Grant Herbier or Arbolayre." Cf. Hunt.
"The source was, at least in the main, Le grand herbier." Cf. Arber: Herbals.
Description
[348] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 27 cm (fol.)
Inscriptions/Markings
Many plants with annotated names and marginal notations, 16th/early-17th century.
Provenance
Edward Voice, inscription: "Edward Voice oweth this Booke" (title page); Anna Corselles, signature (leaf *6r; signature also found in San Marino, Huntington Library, 61514, see Tillman Taape, "Vernacular Readers of Medicine: Imagined Audiences and Material Traces of Reading in Hieronymus Brunschwig's Distillation Books").
Binding
20th century rust morocco, gilt-tooled, perhaps by Charlotte Ullman(?).
Classification
Department