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HERBARIUS - Inicipit [sic] Tractatus de virtutibus herbarum. Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 14th December 1499.
Chancery 4° (207 x 150 mm.). Collation: A4 (1r title, 2r preface Arnoldi de nova villa Avicenna, 3r table of contents Capitula Herbarum); a-x8 (illustrated text, incipit: Absintheum est calidum in primo gradu, t7 table of contents to unillustrated text, t8r incipit: Aloepaticum calidum est, x7v colophon: Impressum Venetiis per Simonem Papiensem dictum Bivilaquam Anno Domini Iesu Christi. 1499. die. xiiii. Decembris and register, x8 blank). 172 leaves. Types 22, 24:120G (title), 23:112Rb (ill. text), 18:83Rb (unill. text). 28-37 lines. 150 half-page woodcut illustrations, 2 white-on-black woodcut initials. (Small wormholes at beginning and end slightly affecting text and cuts, a few minor stains, otherwise in fresh condition.) Early wooden boards (leather spine replaced, stitching of final quire defective. Provenance: contemporary manuscript marginalia; NAG (monogram incised on back cover).
First Venetian edition (of about a dozen) of this popular medieval herbal, which was falsely attributed to Arnoldus de Villanova; the first Italian edition was published at Vicenza in 1491 and was the model for all subsequent editions. HC *1807; BMC V, 524 (IA. 23999); Goff H-69; IGI 4677; Essling 1190; Sander 612; Klebs 506.11.
Chancery 4° (207 x 150 mm.). Collation: A4 (1r title, 2r preface Arnoldi de nova villa Avicenna, 3r table of contents Capitula Herbarum); a-x8 (illustrated text, incipit: Absintheum est calidum in primo gradu, t7 table of contents to unillustrated text, t8r incipit: Aloepaticum calidum est, x7v colophon: Impressum Venetiis per Simonem Papiensem dictum Bivilaquam Anno Domini Iesu Christi. 1499. die. xiiii. Decembris and register, x8 blank). 172 leaves. Types 22, 24:120G (title), 23:112Rb (ill. text), 18:83Rb (unill. text). 28-37 lines. 150 half-page woodcut illustrations, 2 white-on-black woodcut initials. (Small wormholes at beginning and end slightly affecting text and cuts, a few minor stains, otherwise in fresh condition.) Early wooden boards (leather spine replaced, stitching of final quire defective. Provenance: contemporary manuscript marginalia; NAG (monogram incised on back cover).
First Venetian edition (of about a dozen) of this popular medieval herbal, which was falsely attributed to Arnoldus de Villanova; the first Italian edition was published at Vicenza in 1491 and was the model for all subsequent editions. HC *1807; BMC V, 524 (IA. 23999); Goff H-69; IGI 4677; Essling 1190; Sander 612; Klebs 506.11.