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An herbal for the Bible. Containing a plaine and familiar exposition of such similitudes, parables, and metaphors, both in the olde Testament and the newe, as are borrowed and taken from herbs, plants, trees, fruits and simples, by obseruation of their vertues, qualities, natures, properties, operations, and effects: and by the holie prophets, sacred writers, Christ himselfe, and his blessed Apostles vsually alledged, and into their heauenly oracles, for the better beautifieng and plainer opening of the same, profitably inserted. Drawen into English by Thomas Newton.

General note: A translation of: Lemnius, Levinus. Herbarum atque arborum quæ in Bibliis passim obviæ sunt. The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "A". Running title reads: An herball to the Bible. Signatures: A4 B-T8 V4. Includes index. Copy filmed at UMI microfilm Early English Books, Tract Supplement reel E4 has title page only. Stationer's Register: Entered to Bollifant and A. Hatfield 4 May [1587] Contemporary MS. ink notes throughout UK-SuSCL Cited in: STC (2nd ed.), 15454 Format of surrogate: Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1960. 1 microfilm reel; 35 mm (Early English books, 1475-1640; 842:06). Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1997. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, Tract supplement ; E4:1(Harl.5927[311])). Ownership and custodial history: From the library of Revd. Sidney Beisly (d. 1876); Beisly bequest UK-SuSCL