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HERBAL
Le grant herbier en francoys. Paris: Guillaume Nyverd for Jean Petit and Michel Le Noir, [c.1510]. 2° (265 x 190mm). Collation: a-s6 A-B6. Bâtarde type: 100mm., lombard initials, 46 lines, double column, shoulder notes and foliation. 304 woodcuts of plants, large Petit device on title. (Stained, a few tears, worming affecting some letters, some leaves nearly detached.) Contemporary French calf over pasteboard, MS. fragments as rear hinge liner (rubbed, slight worming, worn at foot of spine). Provenance: Charles du Fay (16th-century inscriptions).
Le grant herbier is the only early herbal to have originated in France. It is based on a French version of the Antidotarium of Platearius, which derives in turn from Arabic sources such as Avicenna and Rhazes, rather than on German or Latin herbals. The first printed version appeared at Besanon about 1486-88 as Arbolayre and there were at least 11 editions printed in the 15th and 16th centuries, all rare; the present edition is not recorded in Moreau Inventaire chronologique. The woodcuts of plants, mostly medicinal, are reduced copies of those in the Arbolayre, and had been used in previous Paris editions printed by P. le Caron and P. Sergent. Cf. Anderson, Illustrated herbal, chapter 13; Brunet I, 377; Nissen BBI 2331; Wellcome 3111.
Le grant herbier en francoys. Paris: Guillaume Nyverd for Jean Petit and Michel Le Noir, [c.1510]. 2° (265 x 190mm). Collation: a-s
Le grant herbier is the only early herbal to have originated in France. It is based on a French version of the Antidotarium of Platearius, which derives in turn from Arabic sources such as Avicenna and Rhazes, rather than on German or Latin herbals. The first printed version appeared at Besanon about 1486-88 as Arbolayre and there were at least 11 editions printed in the 15th and 16th centuries, all rare; the present edition is not recorded in Moreau Inventaire chronologique. The woodcuts of plants, mostly medicinal, are reduced copies of those in the Arbolayre, and had been used in previous Paris editions printed by P. le Caron and P. Sergent. Cf. Anderson, Illustrated herbal, chapter 13; Brunet I, 377; Nissen BBI 2331; Wellcome 3111.