A greene forest, or A naturall historie vvherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees, [and] shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes [and] serpents, and that alphabetically: so that a table shall not neede. Compiled by Iohn Maplet, M. of Arte, and student in Cambridge: entending hereby yt God might especially be glorified: and the people furdered. Anno 1567.
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A greene forest, or A naturall historie vvherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees, [and] shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes [and] serpents, and that alphabetically: so that a table shall not neede. Compiled by Iohn Maplet, M. of Arte, and student in Cambridge: entending hereby yt God might especially be glorified: and the people furdered. Anno 1567.
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Maplet, John, d. 1592.
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Imprinted at London :: By Henry Denham,
[1567 (3 June)]
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Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works.
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"A greene forest, or A naturall historie vvherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees, [and] shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes [and] serpents, and that alphabetically: so that a table shall not neede. Compiled by Iohn Maplet, M. of Arte, and student in Cambridge: entending hereby yt God might especially be glorified: and the people furdered. Anno 1567." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06860.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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Of the Iasper.
THe Iaspar is a Gem verie gréene, like to the Smaragde, but of a litle more grosse co∣lour. Isid. saith that this hath. xvij. seuerall kinds and he calleth it the gréene stone. That of Cypria, (saith Harmolaus) is more duskie coloured and grosse: That of Persia is like to the Ayre, for the which it is called Aerizula: That of Phrygia is purple coloured: There hath bene in auncient time séene a Iaspar in waight .xj. Ounces. There is also in the heade of the Serpent Aspis found a little stone
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much like to the Iasper of maruailous vertue, which some by cutting away the first letter, haue called Aspis. It is thought to haue so ma∣ny wayes in working as it hath kindes.
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