Before revision: Other accounts of the period include De Proprietatibus Rerum (c. 1230–1240) of English Franciscan friar Bartholomaeus Anglicus and a group of herbals called Tractatus de Herbis written and pained between 1280 and 1300 by Matthaeus Platearius at the East-West cultural centre of Salerno Spain, the illustrations showing the fine detail of true botanical illustration.Pavord, p. 111 Western Europe upIllustration from Elizabeth Blackwell's A Curious Herbal (1737) Perhaps the best known herbals were produced in Europe between 1470 and 1670.Arber, p. 11.
After revision: Other accounts of the period include De Proprietatibus Rerum (c. 1230–1240) of English Franciscan friar Bartholomaeus Anglicus and a group of herbals called Tractatus de Herbis written and painted between 1280 and 1300 by Matthaeus Platearius at the East-West cultural centre of Salerno Spain, the illustrations showing the fine detail of true botanical illustration.Pavord, p. 111 Western Europe upIllustration from Elizabeth Blackwell's A Curious Herbal (1737) Perhaps the best known herbals were produced in Europe between 1470 and 1670.Arber, p. 11.