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HERBARIUS LATINUS - Incipit tractatus de virtutibus herbarum. Venice: Christophorus de Pensis for Lucantonio Giunta, 4th July 1502.
Chancery 4° (202 x 135mm.). Collation: A4 (preliminaries including title printed in red with publisher's device); a-x8 (text and illustration). Mostly roman type 7:109. 28 lines. 150 woodcuts. (Lacking x1.8 [1 text, 8 blank], long tear in m7, staining.) 18th-century Italian vellum. Provenance: F.W.T. Hunger (bookplate); G.A. Nelson (bookplate).
This text, the most popular of the late medieval Latin herbals, was wrongly attributed to Arnoldus de Villa Nova (d. 1311); most of it derives from Vincent of Beauvais' Speculum naturale. The woodcuts of this rare edition were first published in the 1491 Vicenza edition (Klebs 506.10). Sander 613; Essling 1191.
Chancery 4° (202 x 135mm.). Collation: A4 (preliminaries including title printed in red with publisher's device); a-x8 (text and illustration). Mostly roman type 7:109. 28 lines. 150 woodcuts. (Lacking x1.8 [1 text, 8 blank], long tear in m7, staining.) 18th-century Italian vellum. Provenance: F.W.T. Hunger (bookplate); G.A. Nelson (bookplate).
This text, the most popular of the late medieval Latin herbals, was wrongly attributed to Arnoldus de Villa Nova (d. 1311); most of it derives from Vincent of Beauvais' Speculum naturale. The woodcuts of this rare edition were first published in the 1491 Vicenza edition (Klebs 506.10). Sander 613; Essling 1191.