Practicierbüchlin bewerter Leibartznei, In allen kranckheyten, vnd Leibs gebrechen / Ernewert von H. Walther Ryffen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ryff, Walther Hermann, -1548.

Contributor:

Huberinus, Caspar.

Egenolff, Christian, 1502-1555, printer.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Botany, Medical--Early works to 1800.

Botany, Medical.

Genre:

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Wooden boards (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

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

Froitzheim, Johann (inscription) (Smith copy)

Physical Description:

172 leaves : illustrations ; 18 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Practicierbüchlin bewerter Leibartznei, In allen kranckheyten, und Leibs gebrechen

Fingerprint:

jaen s.a. a*st mimi (3) 1555 (R)

Place of Publication:

Zu Franckfort : Bei Christian Egenolffen, MDLV [1555]

Notes:

Imprint date from colophon on leaf Y4r, which reads: Getruckt zu Franckfort am Meyn, Bei Christian Egenolff. M. D. LV.

Signatures: A-X⁸ Y⁴.

Woodcut title vignette and illustrations.

Printed marginalia.

"Tröstung in Leiblicher kranckheit" (leaves A6v-C8r) by Caspar Huberinus. Cf. VD 16.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Smith copy bound with: Ryff, Walther Hermann. ConfectBůch, vnd HaussApoteck. Zu Franckfort : Bei Christian Egenolff, MDLIIII [1554].

Smith copy has early ms. inscriptions in brown ink on leaves B1r and R1v; a few early ms. marginal marks in brown ink 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: tail outer corner of leaf R7 torn off with damage to catchword on recto; spine and boards damaged.

Cited in:

VD 16 ZV 13480

OCLC:

919343303