Aztec herbal medicine as recorded in 1552
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Author: Gates, William, translator
Title: Publication No. 23: The De La Cruz - Badiano, Aztec Herbal of 1552
Place Published: Baltimore
Publisher:The Maya Society
Date Published: 1939
Description:
Author: Gates, William, translator
Title: Publication No. 23: The De La Cruz - Badiano, Aztec Herbal of 1552
Place Published: Baltimore
Publisher:The Maya Society
Date Published: 1939
Description:
xxxii, 144 pp. Illustrated from iconography & drawings of various herbs throughout the text. 24x16 cm (9½x6¼"), original blue cloth decorated & lettered in gilt, top edge cut, other edges deckled. First Edition.
First published the year earlier in Latin, this is an English translation of The Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis (Latin for "Little Book of the Medicinal Herbs of the Indians") itself based on an Aztec herbal manuscript, detailing the medicinal properties of various plants in the Americas. It was translated into Latin by Juan Badiano, from a Nahuatl original composed in the Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco in 1552 by Martín de la Cruz that is no longer extant.
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