De plantis epitome vtilissima, Petri Andreae Matthioli Senesis, medici excellentissimi, &c. : nouis plane, et ad viuum expressis iconibus, descriptionibus[que] longè & pluribus & accuratiorib[us]. nunc primum diligenter aucta, & locupletata / à D. Ioachimo Camerario ; ... accessit, praeter indicem quam exactissimum, liber singularis de itinere ab vrbe Verona in Baldum montem plantarum ad rem medicam facientium feracissimum auctore Francisco Calceloario ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mattioli, Pietro Andrea, 1501-1577.

Contributor:

Camerarius, Joachim, 1534-1598.

Feyerabend, Johann, 1550-1599, printer.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Botany, Medical--Early works to 1800.

Botany, Medical.

Botany, Economic--Early works to 1800.

Botany, Economic.

Botany--Pre-Linnean works.

Botany.

Penn Provenance:

Nachmias, Jacob (donor)

Nachmias, Vivian T. (donor)

Thimann, Kenneth Vivian, 1904-1997 (former owner) (inscription)

Bateman, Hugh (inscription)

Bateman, Jill (inscription)

Bateman, Elizabeth (inscription)

Bateman, E. H. (autograph)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 1003 pages, 29 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm (4to)

Other Title:

De plantis epitome utilissima, Petri Andreae Matthioli Senesis, medici excellentissimi, &c.

Fingerprint:

i-i- e.t, s.e- teHi (3) 1586 (R)

Place of Publication:

Francofurti ad Moenum : [Johann Feyerabend], MDLXXXVI [1586]

Notes:

An abridgement of the botanical portion of Mattioli's Commentaries without the text of Dioscorides. First published in Venice, 1571, with title: Compendium de plantis omnibus. Cf. A. Arber, Herbals, their origin and evolution (Cambridge, 1953), p. 351.

Printer's name supplied from VD 16. The Hunt botanical cat. agrees; BM STC German, 1455-1600, assigns to Sigmund Feyerabend.

Signatures: ):(⁶ A-3S⁸ 3T⁴.

Woodcut title vignette (printer's device?), illustrations and initials.

"Iter Baldi civitatis Veronae montis" has special title leaf (leaf R7r) which reads: Iter Baldi ciuitatis Veronae montis, in quo mirabili ordine describitur montis ipsius, atque aliarum quarundam ipsum contingentium partium situs. Recensentur praeterea quaedam insignes plantae, ac herbae ibi nascentes, quae vsui medico plus caeteris conferunt. Recens in lucem editum Ab honestissimo viro Francisco Calceolario Veronensi Pharmacopola, in Campanae aurae officina. Francofurti ad Moenum. M. D. LXXXVI.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by Jacob and Vivian T. Nachmias.

Penn Libraries copy inscribed on blank leaf preceding title leaf to Kenneth Thimann "[i]n celebration of your award of a BALZAN PRIZE. 1982" from Hugh, Jill and Elizabeth Bateman, with autograph(?) of E.H. Bateman dated 15 April 1983 at end.

Penn Libraries copy: lower half of leaf 2C1 torn off with loss of text and damage to illustrations.

Cited in:

BM STC German, 1455-1600, p. 601

Hunt botanical cat., 153

Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.), 1308

Pritzel, 5983

VD 16 M 1613

Contains:

Calzolari, Francesco, 1522-1609. Iter Baldi civitatis Veronae montis.

OCLC:

4301976