This classic text on medieval herbs from the Cloisters has finally been declared out of print by the Met and is available for download!http://www

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Someone has excerpted a lot of Hugh Plat's 1609 text here:
http://katrowberd.elizabethangeek.com/texts/delights.mhtml

coolness!

Banckes' Herbal, 1525. Facsimile by Larkey & Pyles.

Scholars think this text was broken off in the middle and added to by another person, thus accounting for the different entries for some herbs.

Menta

This is called the reed Mynte. It is hote and dry in the ii degre. And there be other dyvers myntes / but I mean house myntes / the whiche ( Read more... )

Transcribed from Pyles & Lackey facsimile ( Read more... )

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Transcribed from the facsimile in the Larkey & Piles 1941 edition ( Read more... )