The Grete Herball whiche geueth parfyt knowledge and vnderstandyng of all maner of herbes ... / prentyd by me (Peter treueris) named the noble experiens of the vertuous handwarke of surgery.
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Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [197?]
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348 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
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References note
Pollard and Redgrave: 13176
Hunt: 25
Becher: 59
Notes
Colophon: Imprentyd at London in Southwarkde 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.
Facsimile reprint c. 1970, not attributed.
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.
From penultimate p. : "Thus endeth the grete herball with his tables which is translated out the Frensshe ito Englysshe"
"The source was, at least in the main, Le grand herbier." cf Arber: Herbals.
Contains a treatise on urines and an index to remedies.
"LThe exposicyõ of the wordes obscure and euyll knowen": p. [325-330].
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