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MACER, AEMILIUS, pseud. [Odo de Meung]. [De viribus herbarum. Edited by Guillaume Guéroult]. Herbarum varias qui vis cognoscere vires: Huc macer adest: quo duce doctor eris. [Paris: Pierre] Baquelier, n.d. [c. 1520].
Chancery 8vo, 127 x 87mm. (5 x 3 7/16in.), red crushed levant morocco, covers with gilt center- and corner ornaments, spine
gilt-lettered and with repeated gilt ornament, turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, g.e., by CHAMBOLLE-DURU, corners slightly bruised, title stained and with a small portion of the right side of the woodcut restored, printed marginalia shaved or very slightly cropped on 14 pages in signatures d, e and i, a few old stains and minor restorations.
Collation: a-v . 159 leaves (of 160, lacks last blank leaf), unfoliated. Semi-gothic type 61mm. 33 lines. Large woodcut on title of the author in his study (84 x 63mm.) and 65 text woodcuts of plants (63 x 63mm.). Issue with spelling "Baquetier" on last page v7v and without colophon on v7r.
"Macer Floridus De Viribus Herbarum, the famous medieval Latin poem on the virtues of herbs, is written in hexameters and consists of 2269 lines, in which seventy-seven plants are discussed. It is of importance as one of the earliest Western documents showing a revival of interest in botany. The author is generally considered to be Odo de Meung (Odo Magdunensis), this name being added to a Macer manuscript at Dresden; Odo lived during the first half of the 11th century and was from Meung on the Loire."--Hunt.
Brunet III, 1270; Ed. paris. 1521-1530, no. 359; NLM/Durling 2890; cf. Hunt 22; Ahumada 23.
Provenance: Ms. list of plants at end; "C. Horier possess..." sixteenth-century inscription on list of plants; E[ugène] C[hapet], bookplate; Juan Carlos Ahumada, ink stamps at front and at end; the present owner.
Chancery 8vo, 127 x 87mm. (5 x 3 7/16in.), red crushed levant morocco, covers with gilt center- and corner ornaments, spine
gilt-lettered and with repeated gilt ornament, turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, g.e., by CHAMBOLLE-DURU, corners slightly bruised, title stained and with a small portion of the right side of the woodcut restored, printed marginalia shaved or very slightly cropped on 14 pages in signatures d, e and i, a few old stains and minor restorations.
Collation: a-v . 159 leaves (of 160, lacks last blank leaf), unfoliated. Semi-gothic type 61mm. 33 lines. Large woodcut on title of the author in his study (84 x 63mm.) and 65 text woodcuts of plants (63 x 63mm.). Issue with spelling "Baquetier" on last page v7v and without colophon on v7r.
"Macer Floridus De Viribus Herbarum, the famous medieval Latin poem on the virtues of herbs, is written in hexameters and consists of 2269 lines, in which seventy-seven plants are discussed. It is of importance as one of the earliest Western documents showing a revival of interest in botany. The author is generally considered to be Odo de Meung (Odo Magdunensis), this name being added to a Macer manuscript at Dresden; Odo lived during the first half of the 11th century and was from Meung on the Loire."--Hunt.
Brunet III, 1270; Ed. paris. 1521-1530, no. 359; NLM/Durling 2890; cf. Hunt 22; Ahumada 23.
Provenance: Ms. list of plants at end; "C. Horier possess..." sixteenth-century inscription on list of plants; E[ugène] C[hapet], bookplate; Juan Carlos Ahumada, ink stamps at front and at end; the present owner.