Seeds of Knowledge: Early Modern Illustrated Herbals

$95.00 at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

by Michael Jakob (Editor) A gorgeous compendium of printed herbals describing medicinal plants and their uses With sumptuous reproductions, Seeds of Knowledge highlights the extraordinary collection of 15th- to 17th-century European printed herbals of the contemporary Liechtenstein collector Peter Goop. Herbals were highly illustrated books that included both the folkloric and medicinal uses of plants, and were critical texts for doctors and lay caregivers. The text and illustrations were repeatedly refined…