"About Many Herbs..."
This article introduces the reader to the old French treatise "About Many Herbs..." ("De plusors herbes...’’), which dates back to the 13 <sup>th</sup> century, barely known and not translated into Russian yet. The above mentioned document explains practical uses of the medical virtues ofplants and expounds the theory of herbalism, from ancient times to the author’s contemporary period. The present article attends not only to the general review of this manuscript, to its lingual and poetic features, but it includes a few parts of the very first translation into Russian.