Accession number
PML 53096
Published
On les vend a Paris : En la rue neufue Nostre Dame a lenseigne Sainct Jehan Baptiste (Nouvellement imprime a Paris pour Estienne Groulleau demourant en la rue Neufue Nostre Dame a lenseigne Sainct Jehan Baptiste), [1546-1547].
Credit line
Gift of Henry S. Morgan, 1962.
Notes
Colophon: ... Nouvellement imprime a Paris pour Estienne Groulleau demourant en la rue Neufue Nostre Dame a lenseigne Sainct Jehan Baptiste.
Shared edition with Pierre Sergent, published around 1546-1547 based upon their dates of common activity.
Signatures: aa⁸ bb-cc⁴ dd⁶; a-z⁴ [-]⁴ A-F⁴ G⁸ H-L⁴ M⁸ N-O⁴ P⁶.
Leaves clxi-clxvi misnumbered clxxi-clxxvi.
Title page printed in red and black.
The text of the Le grand herbier contains 474 chapters, of which 264 were taken from an earlier work, the Circa instans, which is attributed to Matthaeus Platearius of the School of Salerno.--cf. Anderson, F.H. An illustrated history of theherbals, 1977.
Shared edition with Pierre Sergent, published around 1546-1547 based upon their dates of common activity.
Signatures: aa⁸ bb-cc⁴ dd⁶; a-z⁴ [-]⁴ A-F⁴ G⁸ H-L⁴ M⁸ N-O⁴ P⁶.
Leaves clxi-clxvi misnumbered clxxi-clxxvi.
Title page printed in red and black.
The text of the Le grand herbier contains 474 chapters, of which 264 were taken from an earlier work, the Circa instans, which is attributed to Matthaeus Platearius of the School of Salerno.--cf. Anderson, F.H. An illustrated history of theherbals, 1977.
Description
[22], clxxvi (i.e.clxvi) leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 20 cm (4to)
Provenance
Mrs. J.P. Morgan's collection; Provenance: With Seillière arms on covers and armorial book-plate of Thomas Brooke, Armitage Bridge.
Binding
Olive morocco; Seillière arms on covers.
Classification
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