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Mainz: Jacob Meydenbach, 23 June 1491.
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HORTUS SANITATIS.
Mainz: Jacob Meydenbach, 23 June 1491.
First edition of the most comprehensive and copiously illustrated early printed herbal and 'perhaps the most important medical woodcut book printed before 1500' (Hunt I, 8). This copy bears various annotations in Swedish by an early reader and was later in the collection of Johan Nordenfalk Jr (1830-1901), the President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts. The Hortus sanitatis is a greatly expanded Latin version of the Gart der Gesundheit (Mainz: Schoeffer, 1485). In particular the parts on animals, birds, fishes, stones and minerals have been substantially enlarged into full sections. The woodcuts are copied in part from the Gart, but new designs have been added to the supplementary sections, increasing the number to over 1,000. Among them features what is probably the first depiction of oil collection: petroleum is described and a woodcut shows it pouring from a rock and being collected in a vessel. The Hortus sanitatis is the first book printed by Meydenbach. HC *8944; BMC I, 44 (IB. 343-4); BSB H-388; Schreiber 4247; Early Herbals 45; Davies, Murray German 193; Goff H-486.
Chancery folio (288 x 200mm). Collation as BMC. 451 leaves (of 454, lacking final blank and apparently bound without v3.4 of ‘De Urinis’ as the early manuscript foliation is continuous). 48 lines and headline, double column, table in 3 columns. Type: 155G, 92G. Xylographic title, 7 full-page woodcuts and more than 1,000 column-width woodcuts, a few partially coloured, foliated in an early hand (minor marginal worming at beginning and end, light dampstaining at beginning and to a few margins throughout, a few leaves lightly browned or finger-soiled, short tears just into text in n2 and p6, larger tear in A1 of index). 16th-century German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, bevelled on inner edge, sides panelled with foliate tools and allegorical figures, engraved clasps, lettered in manuscript on spine (repair at lower right of upper board, some splits, foot of spine defective). Provenance: early and 17th-century inscriptions in Latin and Swedish, some trimmed by the binder, and 2pp. of notes on diseases to rear free endpaper – Paul Platth (student in Aarhus, Denmark; inscription dated 1642) – (?)P. J. Hyckeronom (inscription on front endpaper) – Johan Nordenfalk Jr (1830-1901; inscription on front endpaper dated 1855) – by descent to the present owner.
Mainz: Jacob Meydenbach, 23 June 1491.
First edition of the most comprehensive and copiously illustrated early printed herbal and 'perhaps the most important medical woodcut book printed before 1500' (Hunt I, 8). This copy bears various annotations in Swedish by an early reader and was later in the collection of Johan Nordenfalk Jr (1830-1901), the President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts. The Hortus sanitatis is a greatly expanded Latin version of the Gart der Gesundheit (Mainz: Schoeffer, 1485). In particular the parts on animals, birds, fishes, stones and minerals have been substantially enlarged into full sections. The woodcuts are copied in part from the Gart, but new designs have been added to the supplementary sections, increasing the number to over 1,000. Among them features what is probably the first depiction of oil collection: petroleum is described and a woodcut shows it pouring from a rock and being collected in a vessel. The Hortus sanitatis is the first book printed by Meydenbach. HC *8944; BMC I, 44 (IB. 343-4); BSB H-388; Schreiber 4247; Early Herbals 45; Davies, Murray German 193; Goff H-486.
Chancery folio (288 x 200mm). Collation as BMC. 451 leaves (of 454, lacking final blank and apparently bound without v3.4 of ‘De Urinis’ as the early manuscript foliation is continuous). 48 lines and headline, double column, table in 3 columns. Type: 155G, 92G. Xylographic title, 7 full-page woodcuts and more than 1,000 column-width woodcuts, a few partially coloured, foliated in an early hand (minor marginal worming at beginning and end, light dampstaining at beginning and to a few margins throughout, a few leaves lightly browned or finger-soiled, short tears just into text in n2 and p6, larger tear in A1 of index). 16th-century German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, bevelled on inner edge, sides panelled with foliate tools and allegorical figures, engraved clasps, lettered in manuscript on spine (repair at lower right of upper board, some splits, foot of spine defective). Provenance: early and 17th-century inscriptions in Latin and Swedish, some trimmed by the binder, and 2pp. of notes on diseases to rear free endpaper – Paul Platth (student in Aarhus, Denmark; inscription dated 1642) – (?)P. J. Hyckeronom (inscription on front endpaper) – Johan Nordenfalk Jr (1830-1901; inscription on front endpaper dated 1855) – by descent to the present owner.
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