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[HERBAL.] Herbarius latinus. Tractatus de virtutibus herbarum. Vicenza: Leonardus Achates und Guillelmus de Papia, 27 October, 1491.
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[HERBAL.] Herbarius latinus. Tractatus de virtutibus herbarum. Vicenza: Leonardus Achates und Guillelmus de Papia, 27 October, 1491.
Chancery 4° (198 x 140 mm). 33 lines. Types: 6:88; 7:114R. 170 leaves (of 172, lacks initial blank and first leaf supplied in facsimile). 150 HALF-PAGE WOODCUTS OF PLANTS, (Third and fourth leaf with short foremargin and staining, some light staining in other places). Old vellum. Provenance: Some early ink marginalia; F.W. T. Hunger (bookplate); The Warren H. Corning Collection Horticultural Classics (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION PRINTED IN ITALY, published by Vicenza's first printer Leonardus Achates. "Very scarce first edition of the Herbarius which was printed in Italy. Text and arrangement identical with Schoeffer's edition, but of course without German names of plants. The woodcuts are partly influenced by the German cuts, but all are newly designed, being finer in execution and the lines more delicate, and for the greater part quite different." (Klebs, Early Herbals). The Herbarius was intended to address the needs of laymen who lacked access to physicians. Thirteen fifteenth-century editions are recorded. BMC VII, 1033; BSB-Ink. H-103; Cleveland Collections 15, (GC copy this copy); Goff H-68; GW 12276; Klebs, Early Herbals 10; Nissen, BBI 2307; Sander 610.
Chancery 4° (198 x 140 mm). 33 lines. Types: 6:88; 7:114R. 170 leaves (of 172, lacks initial blank and first leaf supplied in facsimile). 150 HALF-PAGE WOODCUTS OF PLANTS, (Third and fourth leaf with short foremargin and staining, some light staining in other places). Old vellum. Provenance: Some early ink marginalia; F.W. T. Hunger (bookplate); The Warren H. Corning Collection Horticultural Classics (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION PRINTED IN ITALY, published by Vicenza's first printer Leonardus Achates. "Very scarce first edition of the Herbarius which was printed in Italy. Text and arrangement identical with Schoeffer's edition, but of course without German names of plants. The woodcuts are partly influenced by the German cuts, but all are newly designed, being finer in execution and the lines more delicate, and for the greater part quite different." (Klebs, Early Herbals). The Herbarius was intended to address the needs of laymen who lacked access to physicians. Thirteen fifteenth-century editions are recorded. BMC VII, 1033; BSB-Ink. H-103; Cleveland Collections 15, (GC copy this copy); Goff H-68; GW 12276; Klebs, Early Herbals 10; Nissen, BBI 2307; Sander 610.