Anonymous compilation including most of the Circa instans of Matthaeus Platearius as well as extracts from other authors. Table of ailments with reference to appropriate remedy on 12 leaves at end. Manuscript notes throughout. Anyone trying to trace the development of this work will find the bibliographical trail strewn with difficulties. The work is known by several names, including the most frequently cited title, Arbolayre .
Contributors remain anonymous, dates are uncertain, and the compiler is unknown.
Some of the woodcut illustrations used in this work were originally created for Der Gart der Gesundheit , while others were borrowed from the Circa instans , another early herbal. This was the first major herbal printed in French. Only five copies of the first edition of this work are known to exist, and copies of the 16th century editions are quite rare. This edition may be the only complete copy in North America.