New Kreüterbůch : in welchem nit allein die gantz Histori, das ist, Namen, Gestalt, Statt vnd Zeit der Wachsung, Natur, Krafft vnd Würckung, des meysten Theyls der Kreüter so in Tëutschen vnnd andern Landen wachsen, mit dem besten Vleiss beschriben, sonder auch aller derselben Wurtzel, Stengel, Bletter, Blůmen, Samen, Frücht, vnd in summa die gantze Gestalt, allso artlich vnd kunstlich abgebildet vnd contrafayt ist, das dessgleichen vormals nie gesehen, noch an Tag ko[m]men / durch den hochgelerten Leonhart Fuchsen ... ; mit dreyen nützlichen Registern, auss welchen die zwey ersten, aller Kreüter darnon hierin[n] gehandlet, Teütsche, Lateinische vnnd Griechische Namen, auch deren sich die Apotecker gebrauchen, begreiffen ; im dritten aber mag man zů allen Kranckheyten vnd Gebresten so dem Menschen, vnd auch zum Teil dem Viech, mögen zůfallen, vilfeltig Artzney vnnd Radt eilends finden, sampt ettlichen andern Stucken zur Haushaltung treffenlich nütz vnd dienstlich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fuchs, Leonhart, 1501-1566, author.

Contributor:

Füllmaurer, Heinrich, illustrator.

Meyer, Albrecht, active 1542, illustrator.

Specklin, Veit Rudolph, -1550, woodcutter.

Isingrin, M. (Michael), 1500-1557, printer.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Standardized Title:

De historia stirpium. German

Language:

German

Latin

Subjects (All):

Botany--Pre-Linnean works.

Botany.

Botany--Illustrations--Early works to 1800.

Plant names, Popular--Early works to 1800.

Plant names, Popular.

Botany, Medical--Early works to 1800.

Botany, Medical.

Botany--Germany--Early works to 1800.

Germany.

Genre:

Illustrated works.

Early works.

Herbals.

Wooden boards (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Thenhaven, Johann Jacob (autograph) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

[888] pages : illustrations, portraits ; 40 cm (folio)

Fingerprint:

n,on ixij e.c. DaDa (C) 1543 (A)

Place of Publication:

Getruckt zů Basell, : Durch Michael Isingrin, 1543.

Language Note:

German translation (with some Latin) of: De historia stirpium.

Notes:

Colophon on leaf BB6v reads: Getruckt zů Basell, durch Michael Isingrin, do man zalt nach Christi gebůrt M. D. XLIII.

Signatures: pi-2pi⁶ 3pi⁴ a-z⁶ A-Z⁶ Aa-Zz⁶ AA⁶ BB⁸.

Without pagination.

Woodcut illustrations by Heinrich Füllmaurer and Albrecht Meyer, cut by Veyt Rudolff Speckle. See K. Hentschel, Visual cultures in science and technology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), page 213.

Woodcut printer's devices (on title leaf and leaf BB8v), portraits of the author (leaf pi1v) and the illustrators and blockcutter (leaf BB7v), initial and head-piece.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy imperfect: leaves pi1 (title leaf), pi2, pi6, 2pi1, c2, h3, g4, h4, p5, z3, B4, G4, H1, M5, O1, O3, R4, T2, X1, X4, Z6, Gg3, Ii5, Xx5, Zz1, Zz6, BB2, BB3, BB4, BB7 and BB8 wanting. Photoreproductions of leaves pi1 (title leaf) and pi2 bound in their places; leaf with photoreproduction of leaves BB6v on recto and BB7v on verso bound in after leaf BB6.

Kislak Center copy has [3] leaves ([5] pages) of early manuscript notes (damaged at fore-edge with some loss of text) bound in at end of volume; [10] leaves (each 36 x 11 cm) containing [17] pages of manuscript notes (with title: Wer in diesem Register eine Pflanze suchen will und hat die-selbe aufgefunden der besuche sich dies Registel derselbe zulesen so wird es mehrere S[...] derselben finden, welches für den suchenden Wi[...] sein wird[?]) sewn together and housed in a pocket on back pastedown.

Kislak Center copy acquired for the Penn Libraries in 2019 from John Fuegi and Joanne Francis with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Kislak Center copy has dated 18th-century autograph ("Johan Jacob Thenhaven Chyrurgus Anno 1734") in brown ink on verso of front free endpaper with his annotations in brown ink in text.

Kislak Center copy: illustrations hand-colored.

Kislak Center copy: leaves Zz2.5 bound in out of order after leaf BB1

Kislak Center copy: leaves closely cropped at all margins with occasional loss of text and/or image; leaf BB6 mutilated with significant loss of text and image and mended with a blank leaf; many leaves dampstained; many leaves damaged at one or more margins with some loss of text and/or image (mended with blank or printed leaves); leaves g3 and E2 detached.

Kislak Center copy bound in full leather over wooden boards; boards double-ruled in blind; 2 metal catch-plates on left board; evidence of clasps on right board; 4 raised bands on spine.

Cited in:

Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVI. Jahrhunderts (VD 16), F 3243

Pritzel, G.A. Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium (1872-1877 edition), 3139

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, F 1107

Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.), 659

Related Work:

Translation of: Fuchs, Leonhart, 1501-1566. De historia stirpium.

OCLC:

6764375

Online:

The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund Home Page