Le grant herbier en francoys
Subtitle: contenant les qualitez, vertus et proprietez des herbes, arbres, gommes, semences, huylles et pierres precieuses : extraict de plusieurs traictez de medecine, comme de Auicenne, Rasis, Constantin, Isaac, Plataire, et Ypocras : selon le commun usaige : Imprime nouuellement a Paris
Publisher: En la rue neufue nostre Dame a lenseigne de lescu de France
Published: 15uu
Place of publication: On les vend a Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Botany; Pre-Linnean works; Herbals; Early works to 1800; Medical Botany
Work titles: Grant herbier
Notes: First published about 1486-1488 under title: Arbolayre.

Title page in black and red.

The text of the Le grand herbier contains 474 chapters, of which 264 were taken from an earlier work, the Circa instans, which is attributed to Matthaeus Platearius of the School of Salerno. --Anderson, F.H. An illustrated history of the herbals, 1977.

Colophon: Imprime nouuellement a Paris par Alain Lotrian.

Signatures: aa⁸ bb-cc⁴ a-z⁴ [pi]⁴ A-F⁴ G⁸ H-L⁴ M⁸ N-O⁴ P⁶

Leaves printed on both sides, numbered on recto.

Includes index.

Gift; Sarah C. Sears; 1925 March 27.