Crete HerbaL 47 
flus," on the continent, had been aug-- 
mented fo far as to contain five hundred 
figures of plants. The Grete Herbal 
feenis to have been well received in Eng-^ 
landy fince there are fubfequent copies^ 
which bear the following dates ; 1526, 
1529, 1539 : and in the Continuation of 
Ames, an edition is mentioned of the Great 
Herbal," about the year 1550, 'Mvithout 
the cuts/' There is alfo an edition of 
this book fo late as the year 1561, which 
is ten years after the date of Turner's 
Herbal." That of 1526 bears the foU 
lowing title : 
lihe Grete Herball whiche ge'yeth 
parfyt knowledge & underjiandyng of all 7nan-^ 
ner ofHerbes and there gracyous vertues which 
God hath ordeyned for our profperous welfare 
& helthy for they hele and cure all mamier 
of dyfeafes & fekenefjes that fall or ?nf 
fortune to all tnanner of creatoiires of God 
created^ pradtyfed by many expert and wyfe 
maJlerSy as Avice^^na and other &c. And 
it geveth full parfyt e underfandyng of the 
book lately prented by me (Peter Treveris) 
named the noble experiens of the "vertuous 
hand^ 
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