A timeline of herbals through history to the present.
An herbal is a book that describes herbs and their culinary and medicinal properties.
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Mandragora, 9th c., Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium
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Page will be updated periodically.
Last Update: 9/21/2015
For a less organized more comprehensive list: http://www.pinterest.com/andrea_cro/herbals/
Please note: Most of these are outdated and most of the ones that aren't are intended to be used by doctors and scientists. Please do not take medical advice from outdated books.
Download links link to .pdf or links where you can download from, not direct downloads. No subscription or paid downloads are in download links.
Download links link to .pdf or links where you can download from, not direct downloads. No subscription or paid downloads are in download links.
1550 BCE - Ebers Papyrus. Ancient Egyptian Society. [read excerpts.]
50-70 AD - De Materia Medica. Pedanius Dioscorides. [download. | purchase.]
300-400 - De Medicamentis Empiricis. Marcellus Empiricis. [download (Latin).]
4th Century? -Herbarius Apuleius. Pseudo-Apuleius. [read online, reprints: Oxford Bodleian Library (mostly images). | The British Library (Old English).];
1098-1179 - Causae et Curae & Physica. Hildegard of Bingen. [Causae et Curae (Latin). | Physica (German).]
1404-1438? - The Voynich Manuscript. Unknown. [view online. | more info.]
Ca. 1440 - Tractatus de Herbis. Medieval Italy. [view online.]
50-70 AD - De Materia Medica. Pedanius Dioscorides. [download. | purchase.]
300-400 - De Medicamentis Empiricis. Marcellus Empiricis. [download (Latin).]
4th Century? -Herbarius Apuleius. Pseudo-Apuleius. [read online, reprints: Oxford Bodleian Library (mostly images). | The British Library (Old English).];
1098-1179 - Causae et Curae & Physica. Hildegard of Bingen. [Causae et Curae (Latin). | Physica (German).]
1404-1438? - The Voynich Manuscript. Unknown. [view online. | more info.]
Ca. 1440 - Tractatus de Herbis. Medieval Italy. [view online.]
1485 - Gart der Gesundheit. Johann Wonnecke of Kaub. [download (German).]
Ca. 1500 - Helmingham herbal and bestiary. [view online.]
1542 - De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes (Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants). Leonhart Fuchs. [download (Latin).]
1546 - Kreutterbuch. Hieronymus Bock. [download (German).]
1552 - The De la Cruz-Badiano Aztec Herbal of 1552. The Aztec Society. [read online (Translation).]
1554 - Cruijdeboeck. Rembert Dodoens. [read online (Dutch).]
Ca. 1500 - Helmingham herbal and bestiary. [view online.]
1529 - Grete Herball. Peter Treveris. [more info.]
1542 - De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes (Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants). Leonhart Fuchs. [download (Latin).]
1552 - The De la Cruz-Badiano Aztec Herbal of 1552. The Aztec Society. [read online (Translation).]
1554 - Cruijdeboeck. Rembert Dodoens. [read online (Dutch).]
1597 - The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. John Gerarde. [read online. | purchase.]
1652 - Culpeper's Complete Herbal. & The English Physician. Nicholas Culpeper. [read online. | download. | purchase.]
1737 - A Curious Herbal. Elizabeth Blackwell. [download.]
1755 - The Useful Family Herbal. Sir John Hill. [read online (Reprint The Family Herbal. 1812).]
1931 - A Modern Herbal. Madame Maud Grieve. [read online. | download. | purchase.]
1980 - Herbal Medicine. Dian Dincin Buchman. [purchase.]
1996 - The Constituents of Medicinal Plants. Andrew Pengelly. [download. | purchase.]
2004 - The Handbook of Clinically Tested Herbal Remedies. [download. | purchase.]
Other Books Worth Mention:
5th Century BCE - 2nd Century AD - Corpus Hippocraticum. Hippocrates & Others. [The Genuine Works of Hippocrates | The Writings of Hippocrates and Galen | MIT Classics: Works by Hippocrates]16th Century AD - 19th Century - Family Recipe Books archived at The Wellcome Library. [info. | archives.]
1922 - The Old English Herbals. Eleanour Sinclair Rohde. [read online.]
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