[O]fft vnd vil habe ich by mir selbst betracht die wu[n]dersam werck des schepfers der natuer wie er am anbeginde dem hymel hait beschaffen vnd gezterer mit schonen leüchtenden sternen den er zů inflüssen in alles das vnder dem hymel ist krafft vnd macht geben hait, [28 Mar. 1485]
- Title(s):
- [O]fft vnd vil habe ich by mir selbst betracht die wu[n]dersam werck des schepfers der natuer wie er am anbeginde dem hymel hait beschaffen vnd gezterer mit schonen leüchtenden sternen den er zů inflüssen in alles das vnder dem hymel ist krafft vnd macht geben hait.
- Additional Title(s):
Offt und wil habe ich by mir seblst betracht der wundersam werck des schepfers der natuer
Gart der Gesundheit.- Published/Created:
- [Mainz] : [Peter Schoeffer], [28 Mar. 1485]
- Physical Description:
- [360] leaves (the last blank) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 25 cm. (fol.)
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsLeaf Collection no. 0425Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3847157
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Based upon the Herbarius, printed by Schoeffer in 1484 (Goff H62). Sometimes incorrectly treated as a German translation of the Hortus Sanitatis, a later different work, first printed by Jacob Meydenbach in 1491 (Goff H486), that was also based on the Herbarius. Cf. Goff.
Edited by Johannes von Cuba.
Title from first line of text on leaf [2]r.
Imprint from Goff.
Colophon (leaf 359v) reads: Disser Herbarius ist czu menc[em] gedruckt vnd geendet uff dem xxviij dage des mercem. Anno. M.cccc.lxxxv.
Gatherings: [1-45]⁸; final leaf blank.
Contains nearly 400 woodcut illustrations, mostly of plants and a few animals. Full-page wood-cut illustration on leaf [1]v depicts an assembly of 13 physicians, 3 seated, in front of a 2-pillared arcade; at left is a fruit tree, at right is a palm tree. Cf. Schreiber.
Incunabula short title catalogue, ig00097000
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, G97
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 8948*
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M09766
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, p. 35 (IB. 242)
Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 4332
BSB-Ink. W-93
Klebs 507.1
Klebs, A.C. Early herbals, 22
Schramm XIV, p. 9
Schullian, D.M. NLM Incun. 200
Yale Med copy imperfect: leaves 1-3 and 339-359 wanting, and supplied in facsimile.
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0425: Imperfect: six leaves only, with woodcut illustrations depicting nigella, an elephant, mandragora, astrens, borago, and balsamita. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink. - Subject Terms:
- Botany -- Pre-Linnean works.Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.Cushing, Harvey, 1869–1939. -- Ownership.Herbs -- Therapeutic use -- Early works to 1800.Incunabula in Yale Library.Materia medica -- Early works to 1800.Medicinal plants -- Early works to 1800.Medicine, Medieval.Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works.Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
- Form/Genre:
- Botanical illustrations -- Germany -- Mainz -- 1481-1490.
Herbals.
Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
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