Herbarius zu teütsch vnnd von allerhandt kreüteren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cuba, Johannes von, active 1484-1503.

Breydenbach, Bernhard von, approximately 1440-1497.

Schönsperger, Johann, -1520?, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Gart der Gesundheit.

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Botany, Medical--Early works to 1800.

Botany, Medical.

Medicinal plants--Early works to 1800.

Medicinal plants.

Materia medica--Early works to 1800.

Materia medica.

Genre:

Herbals -- Germany -- Augsburg -- 15th century.

Incunabula.

Wooden boards (Binding)

Bevelled edge boards (Binding)

Clasps (Binding)

Hand coloring.

Penn Provenance:

Fuegi, John (donor) (RBC copy)

Francis, Jo (donor) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

262 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 26 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Herbarius zu teütsch unnd von allerhandt kreüteren

Fingerprint:

a.a. elna r.as erin (C) 1496 (T)

Place of Publication:

[Augsburg] : Gedruckt ... durch Hannsen Schönsperger in der keyserlichen statt Augspurg ..., Am afftermontag vor vnsers herre[n] auffart Nach Cristi geburt tausent vierhundert vnd in de[m] sech[ss]undneüntzigisten jare [10 May 1496]

Notes:

Edited by Johannes von Cuba. Cf. ISTC.

Title from title leaf (leaf pi1r).

Imprint from colophon on leaf I7v which reads: Gedruckt vnd säligklich volendet dyser Herbarius durch Hannsen Schönsperger in der keyserlichen statt Augspurg am afftermontag vor vnsers herre[n] auffart Nach Cristi geburt tausent vierhundert. vnd in de[m] sech[ss]undneüntzigisten jare.

"BSB-Ink enters under Johann Wonnecke"--ISTC.

Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Leaf b3r: 39 lines to a full column; area of text: 201 x 127 mm.; col. width: 61 mm. Printed paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Rubrication not called for. Woodcut initial (leaf a2r); full page woodcut illustration of five doctors seated in a circle in front of a pharmacy in which a male figure is at work with a mortar and pestle (leaf a3v); 394 woodcut illustrations (most of plants, but some of human figures, animals, apparatus, etc.) in text. Cf. Schreiber.

Signatures: pi⁴ a-v⁸ w⁸ x-z⁸ A-D⁸ E⁶ F⁸ G-H⁶ I⁸ (leaves a1 and I8 blanks).

Leaf h1 unsigned; leaf w1 signed "w ij".

Introduction by Bernhard von Breydenbach.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

RBC copy housed in slip case with bound volume containing facsimile reproductions of leaves pi1 (title leaf), a2-a8, b1, b8, c1, g4, g5,n6, n4, n7, n8, E1, v7 and F2 (facsimile reproductions of leaves f5r and f5v laid in).

Leaf size: 240 x 127 mm.

RBC copy: woodcuts hand-colored.

RBC copy has early German ms. notes on 2 blank leaves bound in after leaf I7; some early German ms. marginal notes in brown and red ink; some early ms. underlines, marks and manicules in brown ink; some ms. marginal marks in pencil; modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front pastedown.

RBC copy presented to the Penn Libraries by John Fuegi and Jo Francis in 2015.

RBC copy bound in contemporary half blind-tooled pig over beveled-edge wooden boards; each board tooled with two rows of images: the Resurrection (with text: VITA), the Fall (with text: MORS), the Annunciation (with text: DEVS HOMO), Jacob and Raphael (with text: ISRAEL JACOB and initials H B), and the Baptism of the Lord (with text: BAPTISMVS); 4 raised bands on spine; ms. imprint date ("1496") on spine; 2 leather and metal fore-edge clasps (modern replacements) and 2 metal catchplates; early ms. shelf-mark(?) ("1161") in brown ink on fore-edge.

RBC copy imperfect: gatherings pi and a (including title leaf and blank leaf a8) wanting; leaves b1, b8, c1, g4, g5, n4, v7, E1 and F2 wanting; leaf I8 (blank) wanting. Facsimile reproduction of title leaf from another copy bound in at beginning of volume. Six early German ms. leaves supplying missing text (written in brown ink with headings in red ink) bound in before leaves b2 and c2, after leaves n3, n5 and D8, and before leaf E2.

RBC copy: some leaves torn and mended; lower portion of leaf E5 torn and mended with a blank leaf on recto; tail outer corner of leaves b4 and b5 torn off and mended with blank leaves (with damage to signature mark on leaf b5); tail outer corner of leaf C5 torn off and mended with a blank leaf; tail outer corner of leaf E6 torn off and mended with a blank leaf with damage to last line of text on recto and verso; tail outer corner of leaf F8 torn off and mended with a blank leaf with damage to last line of text on verso; small portion of tail margin of leaf h8 torn off and mended with Japanese tissue; portion of tail margin of leaves B7, D2, H4, I4 and I5 torn off and mended with blank leaves; portion of fore-edge margin of leaf F4 torn off and mended with a blank leaf with damage to text on recto and verso; leaf I7 mended at inner margin; wormholes in tail margin of leaves H3-H6 mended with Japanese tissue; some pinpoint wormholes in boards.

Cited in:

Goff G-106

GW M09759

BSB-Ink. W-102

Schreiber, W.L. Handbuch (3. Aufl.), 4343

ISTC ig00106000

OCLC:

709840749