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- History
- China, India, Mexico
- Shen Nung Pen Ts’ao ching of China
- Sushruta Samhita of India
- Hernandez – ''Rerum Medicarum'' and the Aztecs
- Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome
- Papyrus Ebers
- Dioscorides – ''De Materia Medica''
- Pliny – ''Natural History''
- The Middle Ages and Arab World
- Anglo-Saxon herbals
- Anglo-Norman herbals
- Albertus Magnus – ''De Vegetabilibus''
- Western Europe and the Renaissance
- Fifteenth-century incunabula
- Fifteenth-century manuscripts
- Spain and Portugal – de Orta, Monardes, Hernandez
- Germany – Bock, Brunfels and Fuchs
- Low Countries – Dodoens, Lobel, Clusius
- Italy – Mattioli, Calzolari, Alpino
- England – Turner, Gerard, Parkinson, Culpeper
- Legacy
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|375px|right|Dioscorides' De Materia Medica (Dioscorides)|De Materia Medica, [[Byzantium, 15th-century manuscript, by which time the text had been in circulation for about 1500 years]]
A herbal is a book containing the names and descriptions of plants, usually with information on their medicinal, tonic, culinary, toxic, hallucinatory, aromatic, or magical powers, and the legends associated with them. A herbal may also classify the plants it describes, may give recipes for herbal extracts, tinctures, or potions, and sometimes include mineral and animal medicaments in addition to those obtained from plants. Herbals were often illustrated to assist plant identification.