The following information is provided freely to encourage the study of Herbalism in our period. Please
use caution as some advise found in these texts was not safe for humans at the time of publication and
is not safe today.
Primary Sources:
A Book of Fruits and Flowers: First Published in 1653 and here reproduced in facsimile with an
introduction by C. Anne Wilson, Prospect Books, London, 1984
Aelian: On Animals with an English Translation, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1971,
(Trans. A. F. Schofield)
Apicius: Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome, Edited and Translated by Joseph Dommers Vehling,
Dover Publications, New York, 1977
Apicius: The Roman Cookery of Apicius: A treasury of Gourmet Recipes & Herbal Cookery, Translated
and Adapted for the Modern Kitchen By John Edwards, Hartley & Marks, Inc., Publishers, Washigton,
1984
Aristotle: Historia Animalium with an English Translation. 3 Vol. Loeb Classical Library, Harvard
University Press, 1979, (Trans. A. L. Peck)
Athenaeus: The Deipnosophists. 7 Vol. Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press. 1969 (Trans.
Charles Burton Gulick)
Banckes': An Herbal [1525], Edited & Transcribed into Modern English With an Introduction by Sanford
V. Larkey, M.D., & Thomas Pyles, Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, New York, 1941
Cato and Varro: De Re Rustica. with an English Translation. Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University
Press, 1979, (Trans. William D. Hooper)
Celsus: De Medicina. 3 Vol. with an English Translation, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University
Press, 1971, (Trans. W. G. Spencer)
Cockayne, Oswald, Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England, 3 Vol., Longman, Green,
Longman, Roberts, and Green, London, 1864
*Vol. 1 Herbarium of Apuleius Pp 1-249
**Herbarium of Apuleius continued from Dioscorides Pp. 249- 325
**Medicina de quadrupedibus of Sextus Placitus, 942 G79 v.35 pt.1
*Vol. II Leech Book of Bald, 942 G79 v.35 pt.2
*Vol. III Liber medicinalis de virtutibus herbarum, Recipes, from British museum Harleian. 585, 942 G79
v.35 pt.3
**"Of schools of medicine" British museum Harleian. ms 6258., 942 G79 v.35 pt.3
Coumella: De Re Rustica (On Agriculture), With a Recension of the Text and an English Translation,
Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1977 (Trans. A. B. Ash)
Culpeper, Nicholas: Culpeper's Complete Herbal, and English Physician. Harvey Sales, 1981,
(Reproduced from 1826 edition.)
Digby, Sir Kenelm. The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby, Knight, Opened: Newly Edited with Introduction,
Notes and Glossary by Anne MacDonell, Plilip Lee Warner, London, 1910
Dioscorides. The Greek Herbal of Dioscorides. Gunther, Robert (Translator), Oxford, at the Univeraity
Press, 1934.
Dioscorides. The Greek Herbal of Dioscorides. Gunther, Robert (Translator), Hafner Publishing Co.
NY., 1959
Dodoens Rembert: Histoire des plantes / de Rembert Dodoens; traduction francaise du Petit recueil
auquel est contenue la description d'aucunes gommes et liqueurs, etc., par Charles de L'Escluse (l557)
; facsimile avec introduction, commentaires et la condordance avec la terminologie scientifique
moderne, par J.-E. Opsomer., Centre national d'histoire des sciences, Bruxelles, 1978
Galen: On the Natural Faculties with an English Translation, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University
Press, 1979, (Trans. Arthur John Brock)
Gerard, John: The Herbal, or General History of Plants. The Complete 1633 Edition as Revised and
Enlarged by Thomas Johnson, Dover Publications Inc., New York, 1975
Hill, Thomas: The Gardener's Labyrinth by Thomas Hill, edited by Richard Mabey, Oxford University
Press, 1987.
Hippocrates: Hippocrates, With an English Translation, 6 Vol., Loeb Classical Library, Harvard
University Press, (G. P. Goold, editor)
Homer: The Odyssey: With an English Translation. Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press,
1966, (Trans: A. T. Murray.)
Markham, Gervase: The English housewife. Michael R. Best, editor The English Housewife, McGill-
Queen's University Press, Kingston and Montreal, 1986.
Monardes, Nicholas: Joyfull newes out of the newe founde worlde... with an introduction by Stephen
Gaselee. London, Constable and co., ltd.; New York, A. A. Knopf, 1925
Nostradamus, Michel de: The Elixers of Nostradamus, Nostradamus' Original Recipes for Elixirs,
Scented Water, Beauty Porions and Sweetmeats, Edited By Knut Boeser, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
london, 1995
Parkinson, John: A Garden of Pleasant Flowers, Facsimile reproduction of the 1629 edition, Dover
Publications Inc., New York, 1976
Plat, Sir Hugh: Delights for Ladies (1609). Crosby Lockwood & Son Ltd., London. 1948
Pliny, The Elder: Natural History: With an English Translation. Loeb Classical Library, Harvard
University Press, 10 volumes
*Vol. IV, Translated by H. Rackham, 1986
*Vols., VI & VII.Trans: W. H. S. Jones. 1970
Schlosser, Julius, and Hermann, Julius: Beschreibendes Verzeichnis Der Illuminierten Handschriften in
Österreich, Verlag Von Karl W. Hiersemann, 1931
*Band VI Die Handschriften und Inkunabeln Der Italienischen Renaissance: 2. Oberitalien: Venetien
**Taf. XVII. Giovanni Cadamosto, Trattato „Circa Le Nature De Lherbe, De Cibi Et De Veneni, De Pietre
Et De Parole". Nr. 30. Cod. 5264, f. 58 "Mercurela und Mandragora.
Schram, Albert: Der Bilderschmuck Der Frühdrucke, Verlag Von Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzig.
*Band VI Die Drucke von Konrad Dinckmut in Ulm, 1923
**Tafel 56-89. Herbarius, Ulm. (1487)
*Band XV Die Drucker in Mainz, 1932
**Tafel 27-122. Hortus Sanitatis. Jakob Meydenbach. Mainz. (1491)
*Band XVI Die Drucker in Speyer, 1933
**Tafel 3-34. De Crescentiis, Commodorum Ruralium Libri. Peter Drach. Spayer. (1493)
**Tafel 87-103. Herbarius. Johann und Conrad Hist, Speyer. (1501)
*Band XX Die Strassburger Drucker, II Teil, 1937
**Tafel 52-57. Brunschweig: Churgie. Brevarium Monasteriense. Johann Grüniger. Strassburg. (1497)
**Tafel 61-66. Horatis. Johann Grüniger. Strassburg. (1498)
**Tafel 83-109. Braunschweig. Distillierkunst. Johann Grüniger. Strassburg. (1500)
**Tafel 110-112. Braunschweig. Pestbuch. Johann Grüniger. Strassburg. (1500)
**Tafel 191-197. Hortus Sanitatis. Johann Prüss. Strassburg o. J. (1500)
*Band XXII Die Drucker in Basel, II. Teil, 1940
**Tafel 87-119. Johannes De Cuba: Hortus Sanitatus, Deutsch, Michael Furter. Basil o. J. (1500)
Theophrastus: De Causis Plantarum, 3 Vol., with an English Translation, Loeb Classical Library,
Harvard University Press, 1976, (Trans. Einarson, Benedict and Link, George)
*Enquiry into Plants and other minor works on odours and weather signs with an English Translation.
Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press. 1990, (Trans. Arthur Hort)
Turner, William: A New Herbal by William Turner, 2 Parts, Edited by George T. L. Chapman and Marilyn
N. Twiddle, Cambridge University Press, London, 1989
*Libellus de re herbaria, 1538, [and] The names of herbes, 1548: Facsimiles, with introductory matter
by James Britten, B. Daydon Jackson & W.T. Stearn., London, Ray Society, 1965.
Virgil: Georgics With an English Translation, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1978,
(Trans. H. Rushton Fairclough)
use caution as some advise found in these texts was not safe for humans at the time of publication and
is not safe today.
Primary Sources:
A Book of Fruits and Flowers: First Published in 1653 and here reproduced in facsimile with an
introduction by C. Anne Wilson, Prospect Books, London, 1984
Aelian: On Animals with an English Translation, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1971,
(Trans. A. F. Schofield)
Apicius: Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome, Edited and Translated by Joseph Dommers Vehling,
Dover Publications, New York, 1977
Apicius: The Roman Cookery of Apicius: A treasury of Gourmet Recipes & Herbal Cookery, Translated
and Adapted for the Modern Kitchen By John Edwards, Hartley & Marks, Inc., Publishers, Washigton,
1984
Aristotle: Historia Animalium with an English Translation. 3 Vol. Loeb Classical Library, Harvard
University Press, 1979, (Trans. A. L. Peck)
Athenaeus: The Deipnosophists. 7 Vol. Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press. 1969 (Trans.
Charles Burton Gulick)
Banckes': An Herbal [1525], Edited & Transcribed into Modern English With an Introduction by Sanford
V. Larkey, M.D., & Thomas Pyles, Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, New York, 1941
Cato and Varro: De Re Rustica. with an English Translation. Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University
Press, 1979, (Trans. William D. Hooper)
Celsus: De Medicina. 3 Vol. with an English Translation, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University
Press, 1971, (Trans. W. G. Spencer)
Cockayne, Oswald, Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England, 3 Vol., Longman, Green,
Longman, Roberts, and Green, London, 1864
*Vol. 1 Herbarium of Apuleius Pp 1-249
**Herbarium of Apuleius continued from Dioscorides Pp. 249- 325
**Medicina de quadrupedibus of Sextus Placitus, 942 G79 v.35 pt.1
*Vol. II Leech Book of Bald, 942 G79 v.35 pt.2
*Vol. III Liber medicinalis de virtutibus herbarum, Recipes, from British museum Harleian. 585, 942 G79
v.35 pt.3
**"Of schools of medicine" British museum Harleian. ms 6258., 942 G79 v.35 pt.3
Coumella: De Re Rustica (On Agriculture), With a Recension of the Text and an English Translation,
Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1977 (Trans. A. B. Ash)
Culpeper, Nicholas: Culpeper's Complete Herbal, and English Physician. Harvey Sales, 1981,
(Reproduced from 1826 edition.)
Digby, Sir Kenelm. The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby, Knight, Opened: Newly Edited with Introduction,
Notes and Glossary by Anne MacDonell, Plilip Lee Warner, London, 1910
Dioscorides. The Greek Herbal of Dioscorides. Gunther, Robert (Translator), Oxford, at the Univeraity
Press, 1934.
Dioscorides. The Greek Herbal of Dioscorides. Gunther, Robert (Translator), Hafner Publishing Co.
NY., 1959
Dodoens Rembert: Histoire des plantes / de Rembert Dodoens; traduction francaise du Petit recueil
auquel est contenue la description d'aucunes gommes et liqueurs, etc., par Charles de L'Escluse (l557)
; facsimile avec introduction, commentaires et la condordance avec la terminologie scientifique
moderne, par J.-E. Opsomer., Centre national d'histoire des sciences, Bruxelles, 1978
Galen: On the Natural Faculties with an English Translation, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University
Press, 1979, (Trans. Arthur John Brock)
Gerard, John: The Herbal, or General History of Plants. The Complete 1633 Edition as Revised and
Enlarged by Thomas Johnson, Dover Publications Inc., New York, 1975
Hill, Thomas: The Gardener's Labyrinth by Thomas Hill, edited by Richard Mabey, Oxford University
Press, 1987.
Hippocrates: Hippocrates, With an English Translation, 6 Vol., Loeb Classical Library, Harvard
University Press, (G. P. Goold, editor)
Homer: The Odyssey: With an English Translation. Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press,
1966, (Trans: A. T. Murray.)
Markham, Gervase: The English housewife. Michael R. Best, editor The English Housewife, McGill-
Queen's University Press, Kingston and Montreal, 1986.
Monardes, Nicholas: Joyfull newes out of the newe founde worlde... with an introduction by Stephen
Gaselee. London, Constable and co., ltd.; New York, A. A. Knopf, 1925
Nostradamus, Michel de: The Elixers of Nostradamus, Nostradamus' Original Recipes for Elixirs,
Scented Water, Beauty Porions and Sweetmeats, Edited By Knut Boeser, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
london, 1995
Parkinson, John: A Garden of Pleasant Flowers, Facsimile reproduction of the 1629 edition, Dover
Publications Inc., New York, 1976
Plat, Sir Hugh: Delights for Ladies (1609). Crosby Lockwood & Son Ltd., London. 1948
Pliny, The Elder: Natural History: With an English Translation. Loeb Classical Library, Harvard
University Press, 10 volumes
*Vol. IV, Translated by H. Rackham, 1986
*Vols., VI & VII.Trans: W. H. S. Jones. 1970
Schlosser, Julius, and Hermann, Julius: Beschreibendes Verzeichnis Der Illuminierten Handschriften in
Österreich, Verlag Von Karl W. Hiersemann, 1931
*Band VI Die Handschriften und Inkunabeln Der Italienischen Renaissance: 2. Oberitalien: Venetien
**Taf. XVII. Giovanni Cadamosto, Trattato „Circa Le Nature De Lherbe, De Cibi Et De Veneni, De Pietre
Et De Parole". Nr. 30. Cod. 5264, f. 58 "Mercurela und Mandragora.
Schram, Albert: Der Bilderschmuck Der Frühdrucke, Verlag Von Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzig.
*Band VI Die Drucke von Konrad Dinckmut in Ulm, 1923
**Tafel 56-89. Herbarius, Ulm. (1487)
*Band XV Die Drucker in Mainz, 1932
**Tafel 27-122. Hortus Sanitatis. Jakob Meydenbach. Mainz. (1491)
*Band XVI Die Drucker in Speyer, 1933
**Tafel 3-34. De Crescentiis, Commodorum Ruralium Libri. Peter Drach. Spayer. (1493)
**Tafel 87-103. Herbarius. Johann und Conrad Hist, Speyer. (1501)
*Band XX Die Strassburger Drucker, II Teil, 1937
**Tafel 52-57. Brunschweig: Churgie. Brevarium Monasteriense. Johann Grüniger. Strassburg. (1497)
**Tafel 61-66. Horatis. Johann Grüniger. Strassburg. (1498)
**Tafel 83-109. Braunschweig. Distillierkunst. Johann Grüniger. Strassburg. (1500)
**Tafel 110-112. Braunschweig. Pestbuch. Johann Grüniger. Strassburg. (1500)
**Tafel 191-197. Hortus Sanitatis. Johann Prüss. Strassburg o. J. (1500)
*Band XXII Die Drucker in Basel, II. Teil, 1940
**Tafel 87-119. Johannes De Cuba: Hortus Sanitatus, Deutsch, Michael Furter. Basil o. J. (1500)
Theophrastus: De Causis Plantarum, 3 Vol., with an English Translation, Loeb Classical Library,
Harvard University Press, 1976, (Trans. Einarson, Benedict and Link, George)
*Enquiry into Plants and other minor works on odours and weather signs with an English Translation.
Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press. 1990, (Trans. Arthur Hort)
Turner, William: A New Herbal by William Turner, 2 Parts, Edited by George T. L. Chapman and Marilyn
N. Twiddle, Cambridge University Press, London, 1989
*Libellus de re herbaria, 1538, [and] The names of herbes, 1548: Facsimiles, with introductory matter
by James Britten, B. Daydon Jackson & W.T. Stearn., London, Ray Society, 1965.
Virgil: Georgics With an English Translation, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1978,
(Trans. H. Rushton Fairclough)
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