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Kreüterbůch contrafayt vollkummen nach rechter warer beschreibung der Alten leerer vnd ärtzt : Sampt einer gemeynen Ynleytung der Kreüter vrhab, erkantnussz, brauch, lob, vn[d] herrlicheit / Durch Otho Brunfelss.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection QK99.A1 B78 1534
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brunfels, Otto, 1488-1534.
- Language:
- German
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Medicinal plants--Early works to 1800.
- Medicinal plants.
- Botany, Medical--Early works to 1800.
- Botany, Medical.
- Herbals--Early works to 1800.
- Herbals.
- Botany--Pre-Linnean works.
- Botany.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Herbals -- France -- 1534.
- Penn Provenance:
- Raderscheid, Josef (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)
- Grote, Heinrich, 1675-1753 (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)
- Physical Description:
- [32], ccxiij, [3] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm (4to)
- Manufacture:
- Zů Strasszburg [France] : Bey Hans Schotten, MDXXXIIII [1534]
- Fingerprint:
- r-tz esim eren eiru (3) 1534 (R)
- Notes:
- Date appears before place of printing on title leaf.
- Signatures: [superscript pi]A-D⁴ a-z⁴ A-D⁴.
- Woodcut title border, text border, illustrations and initials.
- Illustrations by Hans Weiditz.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy has early manuscript notes in brown ink on leaf D4r.
- 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 has color-illustrated bookplate of Josef Raderscheid on front pastedown; illustrated bookplate ("HEINRICH GROTE REICHS=FREYHEER ZU SCHAUEN") of Heinrich Grote Reichs-Freiherr zu Schauen (1675-1753) on front pastedown.
- Kislak Center copy: illustrations hand-colored.
- Kislak Center copy bound in full modern calf; left board ruled in blind; gold-tooled floral vignette on left board; 5 raised bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; 2 gold-stamped green leather spine labels ("Otho Brunfels Kreüter-buch" and "Strassburg MDXXXXIIII"); marbled endpapers.
- Kislak Center copy has affixed to front free endpaper modern printed leaf with portrait of the author with caption: Bild 56. OTTO BRUNFELS (1488-1539). Holzschnitt von HANS BALDUNG GRIEN, um 1522; affixed to verso of last blank leaf and to back free endpaper two modern illustrated printed leaves containing a portion of an article in German titled: Die "Väter der Botanik" Brunfels--Bock--Fuchs.
- Kislak Center copy: title leaf mounted on a blank leaf; leaves closely cropped at head and fore-edge margins; a few leaves torn at fore-edge or head margin with minimal damage to text.
- Cited in:
- VD 16 B 8504
- Nissen C. Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.), 259
- OCLC:
- 20551985
- Online:
- The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund Home Page
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