THE BADIANUS MANUSCRIPT (CODEX BARBERINI, LATIN 241) VATICAN LIBRARY AN AZTEC HERBAL OF 1552 by Emmart, Emily Walcott - 1940.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1940.. xiv,89,89a,90,90a,91-341pp., including plates (some in color), in-text illustrations, and full color facsimile recreation of the manuscript. Quarto. Original brown cloth, ruled in blind, front board and spine stamped in red and gilt. Minor shelf wear, scattered very light foxing, mostly to edges. Very good plus. The Badianus Manuscript originated in Mexico in 1552, and was the Aztec Juan Badiano's Latin translation of Nahuatl medical texts, supposedly the earliest herbal produced in the Americas. Emmart's treatment of the manuscript is divided into three main sections, beginning with an in-depth historical discussion of the manuscript itself as well as Aztec book-making and medical practices, followed by a full facsimile recreation of the original manuscript. The latter third of the book is occupied by a full side-by-side transcription and translation of the manuscript, supplemented with scholarly annotations and commentary. The manuscript itself went relatively unnoticed by scholars until the early 1900s, and this is the first printed facsimile and translation that made it available to a wider audience. Not only an indispensable book for the study of Aztec medicine and herbals, but an interesting and beautifully printed work in its own right. OCLC 14721535. Wilfrid Blunt & Sandra Raphael, THE ILLUSTRATED HERBAL (London: Frances Lincoln, 1979), p.109.