Add to ORKGWho were illustrated herbals intended for, who were the actual readers and how did they use these books? The case of the Dutch herbal Den groten herbarius met al sijn figueren (“The great herbal with all its figures”) sheds light on book producers’ strategies of popularisation and readers’ strategies of personalisation. Between 1514 and 1547, at least six illustrated folio editions appeared, with connections to German and English herbal traditions. The work’s paratexts point to a wide intended audience and to a key role for the illustrations in popularisation strategies. Early modern users’ traces in a corpus of 27 individual copies reveal owners from a variety of backgrounds who seem to share a predominantly practical interest in remedies....
The transition from manuscript to print technologies was not smooth. This was due in part to the bar...
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that early 17th-century herbals can be considered precur...
This article explores the interplay between the medical marketplace and print culture in the sevente...
In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Low Countries saw the rise of a lively market for pr...
Ethnopharmacological relevance: Around 1800, Amsterdam was a global trade hub for materia medica of ...
The Antwerp publishing house Officina Plantiniana was the birthplace of many important early modern ...
The second edition of Gerard's herbal, enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson, printed in London by ...
This article aims at understanding how scientific writing was evolving from the medieval to the Earl...
Claus Nissen, in his book, Herbals of Five Centuries, 1958, defines a herbal as a book on medicinal ...
The florilegium is a genre of images that visually documented flowers and decorative plants that wer...
The essay focuses on of the very first incunabulum herbal, printed in Rome by Philippus de Lignamine...
Between 1650 and 1800, advertising for remedies became a standard strategy for all kinds of actors o...
Between 1650 and 1800, advertising for remedies became a standard strategy for all kinds of actors o...
The language of plants saturated the English print marketplace in the sixteenth and seventeenth cent...
Colofon: Imprinted at Antwerpe, by me Henry Loë [...] and are to be solde at London [...] by Gerard ...
The transition from manuscript to print technologies was not smooth. This was due in part to the bar...
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that early 17th-century herbals can be considered precur...
This article explores the interplay between the medical marketplace and print culture in the sevente...
In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Low Countries saw the rise of a lively market for pr...
Ethnopharmacological relevance: Around 1800, Amsterdam was a global trade hub for materia medica of ...
The Antwerp publishing house Officina Plantiniana was the birthplace of many important early modern ...
The second edition of Gerard's herbal, enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson, printed in London by ...
This article aims at understanding how scientific writing was evolving from the medieval to the Earl...
Claus Nissen, in his book, Herbals of Five Centuries, 1958, defines a herbal as a book on medicinal ...
The florilegium is a genre of images that visually documented flowers and decorative plants that wer...
The essay focuses on of the very first incunabulum herbal, printed in Rome by Philippus de Lignamine...
Between 1650 and 1800, advertising for remedies became a standard strategy for all kinds of actors o...
Between 1650 and 1800, advertising for remedies became a standard strategy for all kinds of actors o...
The language of plants saturated the English print marketplace in the sixteenth and seventeenth cent...
Colofon: Imprinted at Antwerpe, by me Henry Loë [...] and are to be solde at London [...] by Gerard ...
The transition from manuscript to print technologies was not smooth. This was due in part to the bar...
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that early 17th-century herbals can be considered precur...
This article explores the interplay between the medical marketplace and print culture in the sevente...