ConfectBůch, vnd HaussApoteck : Kunstlich zůbereiten, Einmachen, vnd gebrauchen, Wes in Ordenlichen Apotecken, vnd Hausshaltungen zur Artznei, täglicher notturfft, vnd auch zum Lust, dienlich vnd nutz, Trewliche Vnderrichtung, So vil dem Gemeynen Man nötig, in Acht Theyl kürtzlich abgetheylt ... / Gualtherus Ruff ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ryff, Walther Hermann, -1548.

Contributor:

Egenolff, Christian, 1502-1555, printer.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

Pharmacy--Early works to 1800.

Pharmacy.

Materia medica--Early works to 1800.

Materia medica.

Genre:

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Wooden boards (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Wallerius, Johann (former owner) (inscription) (Smith copy)

Froitzheim, Johann (inscription) (Smith copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered leaves, 343 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf : illustrations ; 18 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

ConfectBůch, und HaussApoteck

Fingerprint:

user 0a.b i-he chme (3) 1554 (R)

Place of Publication:

Zu Franckfort : Bei Christian Egenolff, MDLIIII [1554]

Notes:

Imprint date from colophon on leaf v7r, which reads: Getruckt zu Franckfurt am Meyn, Bei Chr. Egen. M. D. LIIII.

Signatures: *⁸ A-Z⁸ a-v⁸ (leaf v8 blank).

Leaf G1 is unsigned.

Title in red and black.

Woodcut title vignettes and illustrations.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Smith copy bound with: Ryff, Walther Hermann. Practicierbüchlin bewerter Leibartznei, In allen kranckheyten, vnd Leibs gebrechen. Zu Franckfort : Bei Christian Egenolffen, MDLV [1555] -- Domitzer, Johann. Pflantzbüchlin. Gedruckt zu Franckfurdt am Mayn : Durch Herman Gülfferichen, MDLIIII [1554].

Smith copy has early ms. inscriptions in brown ink on title leaf and leaf A8r; ms. transcription of imprint date in Arabic numerals in blue pencil on leaf v7r; a few ms. marginal pencil marks in text.

Smith copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2015 from Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.

Smith copy has early ms. pen tests and inscriptions ("Waller" and "Wallerius [...]") on recto of first blank leaf at end of volume; early ms. ownership inscription ("Dieses Buch gehoert dem Johann Wallerius zu Dirbach Gemeinde Seuderath[?]") on verso of first blank leaf at end of volume; early ms. inscription ("Johan W[...]") on verso of back free endpaper; some ms. inscriptions (in more than one hand?), most illegible but including the name "Johann Froitzheim," on back pastedown.

Smith copy bound in full contemporary blind-tooled calf over indented wooden boards; 2 metal catch-plates; evidence of 2 leather and metal clasps; 4 raised bands on spine; all edges stippled brown; two small portions of early parchment ms. (written in brown ink in a Gothic bookhand, probably from a liturgical text) used as binder's waste.

Smith copy: spine and boards damaged.

Cited in:

VD 16 R 3931

OCLC:

15566824