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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
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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.