HORTUS SANITATIS. Mainz: Jacob Meydenbach, 23 June 1491. Chancery 2° (295 x 202mm). Collation: A-C 8 D-Z 6 . 8 a-m 6 . 8 n 8 o-t 6 . 8 v-z 6 . 8 \\i 8 aa-hh 6 . 8 ii-ll 6 χ 8 2 v 6 2 A 8 2 B-E 6 (A1r xylographic general title, A1v woodcut, A2r prologue, De herbis , m8v blank, n1r section title, n1v woodcut, n2r De animalibus , v1r section title, v1v woodcut, v2r De avibus , \\i8v woodcut, aa1 De piscibus , ee2v woodcut, ee3r De lapidibus , χ 1r section title, χ 1v woodcut, χ 2r De urinis , 2 v6v woodcut, 2 A1r table, 2 E5v printer's epilogue, colophon, 2 E6 blank). 454 leaves. 48 lines and headline, double column, table in 3 columns. Type: 155G, 92G. 7 full-page woodcuts and 1066 column-width woodcuts, all COLOURED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND; initial spaces, many with guide-letters, others filled in brown ink. (A1.8 reinforced at hinge, small wormholes touching letters and woodcuts, some staining and soiling.) Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards (small wormholes, lightly restored), two brass fore-edge clasps; possibly a Regensburg binding (Schunke, Schwenke-Sammlung Blattwerk 462 = "Art Regensburg Knoten"). Provenance : contemporary MS identifications of plants in German, German annotations on front endpapers; 17th-century annotations on general title; Jacob Dierna, 1697 (signature); O.H., 1898 (mark on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION of "perhaps the most important medical woodcut book printed before 1500" (Hunt I, 8). The Hortus sanitatis is a greatly expanded Latin version of the Gart der Gesundheit , compiled by Johann Wonnecke von Kaub (fl.1430-1503/4) and printed by Schoeffer in 1485. In particular the parts on animals, birds, fishes, stones and minerals have been substantially enlarged from their brief treatment in the Gart der Gesundheit into full sections. The woodcuts are copied in part from Schoeffer's herbal (more directly from Grüninger's 1485/86 reprint -- see Arnim, Schäfer 170), but new designs have been added to the supplementary sections, increasing the number to over 1000. Hind (II, 351) likened some of the new designs to those by the Master of the Ulm Aesop and the Speier Spiegel menschlicher Behältnis . The Hortus sanitatis is the first book printed by Meydenbach. (See lot 166 for the second edition of the Hortus sanitatis .) HC *8944; BMC I, 44 (IB. 343-4); Goff H-486; Schreiber 4247; Schramm XV, p.7; Early Herbals 45; Klebs (Hortus 1; Davies, Murray German 193; BSB H-388.
HORTUS SANITATIS. Mainz: Jacob Meydenbach, 23 June 1491. Chancery 2° (295 x 202mm). Collation: A-C 8 D-Z 6 . 8 a-m 6 . 8 n 8 o-t 6 . 8 v-z 6 . 8 \\i 8 aa-hh 6 . 8 ii-ll 6 χ 8 2 v 6 2 A 8 2 B-E 6 (A1r xylographic general title, A1v woodcut, A2r prologue, De herbis , m8v blank, n1r section title, n1v woodcut, n2r De animalibus , v1r section title, v1v woodcut, v2r De avibus , \\i8v woodcut, aa1 De piscibus , ee2v woodcut, ee3r De lapidibus , χ 1r section title, χ 1v woodcut, χ 2r De urinis , 2 v6v woodcut, 2 A1r table, 2 E5v printer's epilogue, colophon, 2 E6 blank). 454 leaves. 48 lines and headline, double column, table in 3 columns. Type: 155G, 92G. 7 full-page woodcuts and 1066 column-width woodcuts, all COLOURED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND; initial spaces, many with guide-letters, others filled in brown ink. (A1.8 reinforced at hinge, small wormholes touching letters and woodcuts, some staining and soiling.) Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards (small wormholes, lightly restored), two brass fore-edge clasps; possibly a Regensburg binding (Schunke, Schwenke-Sammlung Blattwerk 462 = "Art Regensburg Knoten"). Provenance : contemporary MS identifications of plants in German, German annotations on front endpapers; 17th-century annotations on general title; Jacob Dierna, 1697 (signature); O.H., 1898 (mark on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION of "perhaps the most important medical woodcut book printed before 1500" (Hunt I, 8). The Hortus sanitatis is a greatly expanded Latin version of the Gart der Gesundheit , compiled by Johann Wonnecke von Kaub (fl.1430-1503/4) and printed by Schoeffer in 1485. In particular the parts on animals, birds, fishes, stones and minerals have been substantially enlarged from their brief treatment in the Gart der Gesundheit into full sections. The woodcuts are copied in part from Schoeffer's herbal (more directly from Grüninger's 1485/86 reprint -- see Arnim, Schäfer 170), but new designs have been added to the supplementary sections, increasing the number to over 1000. Hind (II, 351) likened some of the new designs to those by the Master of the Ulm Aesop and the Speier Spiegel menschlicher Behältnis . The Hortus sanitatis is the first book printed by Meydenbach. (See lot 166 for the second edition of the Hortus sanitatis .) HC *8944; BMC I, 44 (IB. 343-4); Goff H-486; Schreiber 4247; Schramm XV, p.7; Early Herbals 45; Klebs (Hortus 1; Davies, Murray German 193; BSB H-388.
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