An herbal for the Bible. : Containing a plaine and familiar exposition of such similitudes, parables, and metaphors, both in the olde Testament and the newe, as are borrowed and taken from herbs, plants, trees, fruits and simples, by obseruation of their vertues, qualities, natures, properties, operations, and effects: and by the holie prophets, sacred writers, Christ himselfe, and his blessed Apostles vsually alledged, and into their heauenly oracles, for the better beautifieng and plainer opening of the same, profitably inserted. /
Lemnius, Levinus,1505-1568.
Newton, Thomas,1542?-1607.
Lumisden, Charles,former owner.StEdNL
Kinnear, David,active 16th century,former owner.StEdNL
Imprinted at London : By Edmund Bollifant,
1587.
A translation of: Lemnius, Levinus.  Herbarum atque arborum quÆ in Bibliis passim obviae sunt.
The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "A".
Running title reads: An herball to the Bible.
Signatures: A⁴ B-T⁸ V⁴.
Includes index.
Copy filmed at UMI microfilm Early English Books, Tract Supplement reel E4 has title page only.
STC (2nd ed.)
ESTC
Microfilm.
Manuscript signatures on the title page "Charles Lummisden" and "Charles Lumisden" in a seventeenth century hand. There are also two deleted inscriptions "Mr david kinnear" and "master david kinneir" in a contemporary hand. There is brief marginalia throughout the volume.
Plants in the Bible