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HERBARIUS LATINUS, with German synonyms. Passau: [Johann Petri], 1486.
Chancery 4° (208 x 155mm). Collation: [14 (1r title Herbarius Patavie impressus Anno domini etcetera lxxxvj, 1v blank, 2r-v preface, incipit: Rogato plurimorum inopum nummorum egencium appotecas refutancium occasione illa, 3r-4r index to first part Capitula herbarum, 4v blank); 2-208 (illustration and text of first part, foliated i-C1, incipit: Absintheum wermut. Absintheum est calidum in primo gradu, 20/7r-v table of contents to second part Particula secunda. De simplicibus laxativis linitivis, 20/8 blank); 218 2210 (the 96 chapters of the second part, incipit: Aloepaticum calidum est)]. 174 leaves. Types 2:150G (title, chapter numbers, headings) and 1:92G (text). 31-33 lines, initial-spaces with guide letters in second part. 150 HALF-PAGE BOTANICAL WOODCUTS IN CONTEMPORARY GERMAN HAND-COLOURING. (Inner and outer sheets of quire 2 reversed, chapter number Cxxxviij cropped, final quire wormed with slight loss of text, lower outer blank corners of the same quire defective, a few other marginal imperfections, clean tear in 3/3, minor soiling in places, but in crisp condition.) Contemporary Austrian blind-stamped red leather (probably deerskin) over wooden boards, saltire of double fillets and small rosettes on sides, each triangular compartment with a large central rosette and "Kopfstempel", double bands on spine, brass catch, original pastedowns, (binding worn, clasp and bosses missing, back cover detached, break in front cover restored). Provenance: inscription of an early owner called Georgius, who may also be responsible for the drawing of a plant on the title-page; Castle Tenschach, near Klagenfurt; Oskar Göschen 1865 (bookplate).
UNSOPHISTICATED COPY of an early illustrated edition of this most popular herbal of the incunable period, a text mostly compiled from Vincent de Beauvais' Speculum naturale. The woodcuts are printed from the same blocks as those in Petri's earlier edition of 1485, which were copied after the cuts in Peter Schoeffer's first edition (Mainz: 1484, Klebs 506.1); the colouring was probably done at the printer's shop. Many of the species depicted are native to Germany, and the book's intended market may originally have been an exclusively German one of physicians and laymen. The short, unillustrated second part treats the classic materia medica, fruits, spices, gums and resins. H *8446; not in BMC; Goff H-65; Pellechet 1313; IGI 4673; Schr 4209; Schramm XVI, p.17; Klebs 506.7; L'Art Ancien bulletin XII (Becher Coll.) no. 8.
Chancery 4° (208 x 155mm). Collation: [14 (1r title Herbarius Patavie impressus Anno domini etcetera lxxxvj, 1v blank, 2r-v preface, incipit: Rogato plurimorum inopum nummorum egencium appotecas refutancium occasione illa, 3r-4r index to first part Capitula herbarum, 4v blank); 2-208 (illustration and text of first part, foliated i-C1, incipit: Absintheum wermut. Absintheum est calidum in primo gradu, 20/7r-v table of contents to second part Particula secunda. De simplicibus laxativis linitivis, 20/8 blank); 218 2210 (the 96 chapters of the second part, incipit: Aloepaticum calidum est)]. 174 leaves. Types 2:150G (title, chapter numbers, headings) and 1:92G (text). 31-33 lines, initial-spaces with guide letters in second part. 150 HALF-PAGE BOTANICAL WOODCUTS IN CONTEMPORARY GERMAN HAND-COLOURING. (Inner and outer sheets of quire 2 reversed, chapter number Cxxxviij cropped, final quire wormed with slight loss of text, lower outer blank corners of the same quire defective, a few other marginal imperfections, clean tear in 3/3, minor soiling in places, but in crisp condition.) Contemporary Austrian blind-stamped red leather (probably deerskin) over wooden boards, saltire of double fillets and small rosettes on sides, each triangular compartment with a large central rosette and "Kopfstempel", double bands on spine, brass catch, original pastedowns, (binding worn, clasp and bosses missing, back cover detached, break in front cover restored). Provenance: inscription of an early owner called Georgius, who may also be responsible for the drawing of a plant on the title-page; Castle Tenschach, near Klagenfurt; Oskar Göschen 1865 (bookplate).
UNSOPHISTICATED COPY of an early illustrated edition of this most popular herbal of the incunable period, a text mostly compiled from Vincent de Beauvais' Speculum naturale. The woodcuts are printed from the same blocks as those in Petri's earlier edition of 1485, which were copied after the cuts in Peter Schoeffer's first edition (Mainz: 1484, Klebs 506.1); the colouring was probably done at the printer's shop. Many of the species depicted are native to Germany, and the book's intended market may originally have been an exclusively German one of physicians and laymen. The short, unillustrated second part treats the classic materia medica, fruits, spices, gums and resins. H *8446; not in BMC; Goff H-65; Pellechet 1313; IGI 4673; Schr 4209; Schramm XVI, p.17; Klebs 506.7; L'Art Ancien bulletin XII (Becher Coll.) no. 8.