Liber de arte distillandi, de simplicibus = Das buch der rechten kunst zü distilieren die eintzige[n] ding / von Hieronymo brunschwygk, bürtig vn[d] wund artzot der keiserliche[n] frye[n] statt strassburg.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Brunschwig, Hieronymus, approximately 1450-approximately 1512.

Contributor:

• Grüninger, Johann, -1532?, printer.
• Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
• Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

• Kleines Destillierbuch

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

• Pharmacy--Early works to 1800.
• Pharmacy.
• Distillation--Early works to 1800.
• Distillation apparatus--Early works to 1800.
• Botany, Medical--Early works to 1800.
• Botany, Medical.
• Distillation apparatus.
• Distillation.

Genre:

• Incunabula.

Physical Description:

18 unnumbered leaves, CCIX leaves, 3 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm (folio)

Other Title:

• Liber de arte distillandi, de simplicibus
• Buch der rechten kunst zü distilieren die eintzigen ding

Fingerprint:

++++ ++++ t.he gesu (3) 1500 (T)

Place of Publication:

[Strasbourg] : [Johann Grüninger], [8 May 1500]

Notes:

• Imprint from colophon on leaf 2O6r, which reads: Hie mit volendt das bůch genant lyber de arte dystillandi de simplicibus vo[n] Ieronimo brunschwyg wundt artzot der keiserlichen fryen statt Strassburg, vn[d] getruckt durch den wol geachte[n] Iohannem grüeninger zů strassburg in dem achte[n] tag des meye. Als man zalt von der geburt Christi fünfftzehenhundert. Lob sy got.
• Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Leaf C2r: 47 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 227 (238) x 151 mm.; col. width: 72 mm. Printed initials and initial spaces, most with guide letters. With signatures and foliation; without catchwords. Numerous woodcuts, including 6 large illustrations (leaf A1r: a garden in which plants are being harvested and distilled; leaf A2r: a teacher and four students; leaf C1r: a crowned scholar at his reading desk; leaves C4v-C5r: a banner containing a poem; leaf E1r: a kneeling young man offering a book to a king; leaf Z2r: three doctors at a patient's bedside) and many smaller ones of plants, animals and distillation apparatus. Cf. Schreiber, Schramm.
• Signatures: A-D⁸ E-Z⁶ 2A-2O⁶.
• Errors in foliation: leaves CXXXIIII and CLXVIII numbered CXLIIII and CXVIII, respectively.
• Leaf 2O4r appears in more than one setting. Left-hand col., line 45 reads: "alle vergyfft vnd gyfftiger thyer byss." A variant reads: "für alle vergyfft vnd gyfftiger thyer byss." Right-hand col., line 21: initial space without guide letter. A variant: initial space with guide letter. Left-hand col., lines 37-39 read: "... d[as], d[as] nütz vn[d] darzů gůt ist d[as] ich dyss gena[n]t bůch. Liber dystillandi de simplicibus." A variant reads: "... das, das nütz vn[d] darzů gůt ist d[as] ich dyss bůch genannt dystillatoria de simplicibus ..." Cf. GW.

Local Notes:

• Leaf size: 276 x 184 mm.
• Penn Libraries copy without rubrication; most illustrations have been hand-colored (wholly or in part) in green, yellow, red and brown.
• Penn Libraries copy has some contemporary ms. annotations in brown ink in text.
• Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1951.
• Penn Libraries copy has paper slip with bookseller's printed description of this copy affixed to front pastedown.
• Penn Libraries copy bound in modern green paper boards with fore-edge flaps (each ca. 1 cm. in width); paper spine label ("Brunschwig. Kleines Destillierbuch Strassburg 1500").
• Penn Libraries copy imperfect: all before leaf C1 (including title leaf) and all after leaf 2O1 (including colophon) wanting; leaves C6, N2, N5 and Z1 wanting.
• Penn Libraries copy: many leaves torn and mended with occasional damage to or loss of text; tail inner corner of leaf F1 torn off and replaced with a blank leaf with damage to woodcut on recto and some loss of text on verso; lower portion of leaf O5 torn off with some loss of text on recto and damage to woodcut on verso; leaves closely cropped throughout with damage to woodcut illustration on leaves C4v-C5r and occasional damage to headline and folio number.

Cited in:

• Goff B-1227
• BM 15th cent. I, p. 114 (IB. 1495)
• GW 5595
• BSB-Ink. B-932
• Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 189
• Klebs 227.1
• Schramm, A. Bilderschmuck der Frühdrucke, XX, no. 661-940
• Schreiber, W.L. Handbuch (3. Aufl.), 3644

OCLC:

81299432