Bod-Inc: A-375

Arbolaire. Le grant herbier en francois.

 

Analysis of Content

A2r [Table of contents.]

D1r ‘L'exposition des mos obscurs et mal cognus par l'ordre des letters de a b c ec.’

D4v ‘Prologe.’ Incipit: ‘En ceste presente besongne en nostre propos et intention de traitier de simples medicines . . .’

D5v Arbolaire [French] Le grant herbier en francois. ‘Arbolayre contenant la qualitey et virtus, proprietey des herbes, arbres, gommes et semences extrait de pluseurs tratiers de medicine comment d'Auicenne, de Rasis, de Constantin de Ysaac et Plateaire selon le connun vsaige bien correct.’ Incipit: ‘[A]loen est de chaude et seche complexion ou second degr[ee]. Aloen est du ius d'une herbe que en a insi appellee aloen . . .’ See Joseph Frank Payne, ‘On the Herbarius and Hortus Sanitatis’, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 6 (1901), 63-126, at 101-5, Arnold C. Klebs, ‘Incunabula Lists. I. Herbals', Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 12 (1918), 41-57, at 52 and Agnes Arber, Herbals: Their Origin and Evolution. A Chapter in the History of Botany, 1470-1670, 3rd edn (Cambridge, 1986), 26. Identified as a translation of the Latin Liber de simplici medicina, known as Circa instans, in Blanche Henrey, British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800 (London, 1975), I 6. Early Herbals, 54. See also note to CIBN A‑496.

Imprint

Imprint: [Besançon: Peter Metlinger, c.1486-8]. Folio.

Remarks: Pellechet assigned to [Lyons: Jacques Maillet].

Collation

Collation: A⁸ B C⁶ D E⁸ F⁶ G H⁸ I⁶ K⁸ L⁶ M N⁸ O⁶ P–X⁸ Y¹⁰ Aa–Ff⁸.

Illustrations: On A1v a woodcut with a dedication scene; 307 woodcuts and woodcut initials.

References

ISTC: ia00944000

GW: GW 2312;

Hain: C 584;

Goff: Goff A‑944;

Others: CIBN A‑496; Claudin IV 479–485; Sheppard 6832.

LCN: 12665514

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