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Gart der Gusundheit (1485) - an immense advance on its
predecessors. Choulant described it as 'the most
imporntant medieval work on natural history.'
400 woodcuts - they were so superior to the debased
copies of the Dioscoridean originals that A. Klebs
called them the greatest single step ever made in
the art of botanical illustration - it is one of the
longest German texts of its time + preserves much
folklore + tradition, besides giving insight into dialects
+ aspects of the language that would otherwise be lost.

The Hebrew Text of the Old Testament had been preserved
naturally enough by the Jews themselves. The
earliest text of the New Testamnent is in Greek; not
because Christ + his apostles spoke + wrote in Greek
but because as a result of conquests of Alexander
the Great, it was the common language of the Near
East. In addition, one of the earliest + most important
texts of the Old Testament, the Septuagint is also in
Greek. During the Middle Ages virtually the
only [corssed out] old [end crossed out] biblical text generally available was the Vulgate
the translation into Latin by St. Jerome in about 400 A.D.

The English secretary alphabet - the style of penmanship used
by Shakespeare
Edmund Spenser's allegorical epic The Faerie Queene, London
1589. The greatest non dramatic poem of the English Renaissance
Christopher Saxon (Atlas of England + Wales, London ca 1579
-England's 1st major cartographer.
The poem Venus + Adonis - Shakespeare's 1st published work (1593)
1st printed play - Titus Adronicus 1594.
The [inserted] over 200 copies survive [end inserted] 1st folio contains the most authoritative texts of most of Shakespeare's
plays + the only surviving texts of half including Macbeth