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The herbal was translated first into Hebrew, then also German, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Italian, and Spanish. [ 1 ] A Middle English version of the poem was translated by John Lelamour, a schoolmaster from Hereford , in the fourteenth century.
The De la Cruz-Badiano Aztec Herbal of 1552: William Gates: The Maya Society 1940: English: The Badianus Manuscript (Codex Barberini Latin 241): An Aztec Herbal of 1552: Emily Walcott Emmart: The Johns Hopkins Press 1952: Spanish: Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis: El manuscrito pictórico mexicano-latino de Martín de la Cruz y Juan ...
Another form of translation was oral transmission; this was used to pass medical knowledge from generation to generation. A common misconception is that one can know early medieval medicine simply by identifying texts, but it is difficult to compose a clear understanding of herbals without prior knowledge.
The oldest surviving manuscript of the Herbarium is the 6th-century Leiden, MS. Voss. Q.9. Until the 12th century it was the most influential herbal in Europe, with numerous extant copies surviving into the modern era, along with several copies of an Old English translation.
The Grete Herball (The Great Herbal) is an Early Modern encyclopedia and the first illustrated herbal produced in English. It is preceded by Richard Banckes's unillustrated Herball ( 1525 ), which was the first printed English herbal ever produced. [ 1 ]
Theophrastus's Enquiry into Plants or Historia Plantarum (Ancient Greek: Περὶ φυτῶν ἱστορία, Peri phyton historia) was, along with his mentor Aristotle's History of Animals, Pliny the Elder's Natural History and Dioscorides's De materia medica, one of the most important books of natural history written in ancient times, and like them it was influential in the Renaissance.
Hortus sanitatis. Mainz 1491 Titlepage Fruits of Paradise. Hortus sanitatis 1491. The Hortus Sanitatis (also written Ortus; Latin for The Garden of Health), a Latin natural history encyclopaedia, [1] was published by Jacob Meydenbach in Mainz, Germany in 1491.