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MEDICINE
119
HORTUS SANITATIS MINOR
Anonymous German Herbal.
179 Hortus sanitatis minor. (In German). Herbarius zu teutsdb vnd von
allerhandt Kreuteren. Augsburg, Johann Sdionsperger, 1488.
Fol. Goth, letter, 2 col., 42 lines, 262 leaves (including last blank)
with sign., at beginning rubricated and underlines supplied in red. With
a fine full-page woodcut on verso of fol. 5, showing five botanists in
council, the background being occupied by an apothecary shop with a young
man pounding something in a mortar; further about 400 fine coloured
woodcuts of herbs, animals, natural objets &c., all of them neatly
coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary blindstamped calf on
wooden boards, two engraved catches for clasps (slightly rubbed, partly
rebacked). Frs. 3600.“
Hain* 8953. Proctor 1770. Schreiber 4340. Sudboff no. 72. Choulant, Graph.
Incun. p. 59, 10. Klebs 8, p. 23. Pritzel 10828. Brit. Mus. Cat. II. 366—7 (imperfect copy).
See also Dr. F. J. Payne’s paper “The Herbarius and Hortus Sanitatis”, Bibliographical
Society’s Transactions, vol- VI.
Good and perfect copy of this famous early German Herbal. It is supposed
that it was compiled by one Johann de Cube who names himself in chapter
76 speaking of “ein gute arczney dick mal versucht an vil enden von mir meister Johan
von cube”, and who is identified with Dr. J oh. Wonneck e, of Caub or Cube
who was town-physician of Frankfort at the end of the 15th century. In the Preface is
an account of the preparation of the book in which it is stated that the originator of
the work caused a master learned in medicine to compile from the great masters,
Galen, Avicenna, Serapion, and others, a volume dealing with the virtues of herbs,&c.
but finding that it was essential to include certain plants that grew in foreign lands,
he prepared himself for a pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre. Thus, in the company of
a skilful painter, he undertook a long journey through Italy, Greece and other countries
to the Holy Land, thence to Arabia Minor, Mount Sinai, Babylonia, and by Alexandria
into Egypt. The identity of this scientific traveller who was a presumably rich man,
apparently not a doctor, cannot be established.
Besides the series of Herbs and natural objects which the work describes, it con-
tains an index of drugs according to their uses, a short treatise on “the Colours of
Urines” and their significance with a welldrawn woodcut of a' physician inspecting
a glass of urine, while a female patient with a basket awaits his verdict —, further a
long index of diseases with reference to the chapters containing medicines appropriate
to them, and an alphabetical index of herbs and other objects.
Our copy of this popular book is waterstained in places, at beginning a few
small wormholes, two leaves are insignificantly torn without any loss of text, otherwise
a fine and large copy. Small library-stamp on the lower margin of the 2nd leaf.
See Reproduction, Plate, XVII.
GILHOFER & RANSCHBURG, WIEN I, BOGNERGASSE Nr. 2.
119
HORTUS SANITATIS MINOR
Anonymous German Herbal.
179 Hortus sanitatis minor. (In German). Herbarius zu teutsdb vnd von
allerhandt Kreuteren. Augsburg, Johann Sdionsperger, 1488.
Fol. Goth, letter, 2 col., 42 lines, 262 leaves (including last blank)
with sign., at beginning rubricated and underlines supplied in red. With
a fine full-page woodcut on verso of fol. 5, showing five botanists in
council, the background being occupied by an apothecary shop with a young
man pounding something in a mortar; further about 400 fine coloured
woodcuts of herbs, animals, natural objets &c., all of them neatly
coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary blindstamped calf on
wooden boards, two engraved catches for clasps (slightly rubbed, partly
rebacked). Frs. 3600.“
Hain* 8953. Proctor 1770. Schreiber 4340. Sudboff no. 72. Choulant, Graph.
Incun. p. 59, 10. Klebs 8, p. 23. Pritzel 10828. Brit. Mus. Cat. II. 366—7 (imperfect copy).
See also Dr. F. J. Payne’s paper “The Herbarius and Hortus Sanitatis”, Bibliographical
Society’s Transactions, vol- VI.
Good and perfect copy of this famous early German Herbal. It is supposed
that it was compiled by one Johann de Cube who names himself in chapter
76 speaking of “ein gute arczney dick mal versucht an vil enden von mir meister Johan
von cube”, and who is identified with Dr. J oh. Wonneck e, of Caub or Cube
who was town-physician of Frankfort at the end of the 15th century. In the Preface is
an account of the preparation of the book in which it is stated that the originator of
the work caused a master learned in medicine to compile from the great masters,
Galen, Avicenna, Serapion, and others, a volume dealing with the virtues of herbs,&c.
but finding that it was essential to include certain plants that grew in foreign lands,
he prepared himself for a pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre. Thus, in the company of
a skilful painter, he undertook a long journey through Italy, Greece and other countries
to the Holy Land, thence to Arabia Minor, Mount Sinai, Babylonia, and by Alexandria
into Egypt. The identity of this scientific traveller who was a presumably rich man,
apparently not a doctor, cannot be established.
Besides the series of Herbs and natural objects which the work describes, it con-
tains an index of drugs according to their uses, a short treatise on “the Colours of
Urines” and their significance with a welldrawn woodcut of a' physician inspecting
a glass of urine, while a female patient with a basket awaits his verdict —, further a
long index of diseases with reference to the chapters containing medicines appropriate
to them, and an alphabetical index of herbs and other objects.
Our copy of this popular book is waterstained in places, at beginning a few
small wormholes, two leaves are insignificantly torn without any loss of text, otherwise
a fine and large copy. Small library-stamp on the lower margin of the 2nd leaf.
See Reproduction, Plate, XVII.
GILHOFER & RANSCHBURG, WIEN I, BOGNERGASSE Nr. 2.
