RYFF, WALTHER HERMANN, (d. 1548). KURTZES HANDBÜCHLIN UND EXPERIMENT VILER ARTZNEYEN. Frankfurt am Main: Paul Reffeler, 1579.
(Washington University, Becker Library)

Walter Ryff, a German mathematician and physician, was an extremely prolific author. He wrote on anatomy, surgery, obstetrics, pharmacology, mathematics, architecture, cooking, and botany.

Rembert Dodoens, the first Belgian botanist of worldwide renown, was also a medical doctor and a physician to the Holy Roman Emperor. His interest in the medical aspects of botany led him to write an herbal in the Dutch language, which later appeared in French, English, and Latin. This edition is the English version of Dodoens’s herbal translated by Henry Lyte.

Note the differences and similarities in the two illustrations!

DODOENS, REMBERT (1517-1585); LYTE, HENRY (TR.) (1529-1607). A NEW HERBALL, OR HISTORIE OF PLANTS. London: Ninian Newton, 1586.
(Missouri Botanical Garden)