| Title: |
Ortus sanitatis. |
| Uniform Title: |
Hortus sanitatis. |
| Author(s)/Relationship(s): |
Meydenbach, Jakob, active 15th century, printer. |
| Publisher: |
[Mainz : Jacob Meydenbach, 23 June 1491] |
| Description: |
[454] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 31 cm. (fol.) |
| Content Type: |
text |
| Media Type: |
unmediated |
| Carrier Type: |
volume |
| Language: |
lat |
| Electronic Links: |
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9413026 |
| Referenced In: |
BM 15th cent., I, p. 44 (IB. 343) |
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BN cat. des incun. H-294 |
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Goff H486 |
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GW 13548 |
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Hunt botanical cat., 8 |
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Klebs 509.1 |
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Klebs, A.C. Early herbals, 45 |
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Schramm, A. Bilderschmuck, XV, 26-1098 |
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Schreiber, W.L. Manuel, 4247 |
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Schullian, D.M. NLM Incun. 244 |
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Wellcome cat. of printed books, I, 3326 |
| MeSH Subjects: |
Botany |
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Animals |
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Materia Medica |
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Minerals |
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Phytotherapy |
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Plants, Medicinal |
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Urine |
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Herbal |
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Incunabula |
| Notes: |
Imprint from Goff. |
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Colophon reads: .... Qeum quidem librum omni dilige[n]tia collectum [et] elaboratum. intelligibili caractere proprijs impensis Iacobus meydenbach ciuis Moguntinus lucule[n]tissime impressit ... Impressum est autem hoc ip[su]m in inclita ciuitate Moguntina ... in qua nobilissima ciuitate [et] ars ac scientia hec subtilissima caracterisandi seu imprimendi fuit primu[m] inueta ... Anno salutis Millesimo Quadringentesimo Nonagesimo primo. Die vero Iouis vicesima tercia mensis Iunij. |
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Signatures: A-C⁸ D-Z⁶/⁸ a-m⁶/⁸ n-y⁸/⁶ z⁸ [et]⁸ 2a-2h⁶/⁸ 2i-2l⁶ [chi]⁸ [chi]v⁶; ²A⁸ B-E⁶ (²E6 blank); v2-3 missigned v1-2; [chi]v1-3 signed v, vj, and vij. |
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The "Tractatus de Animalibus vitam in terris ducentium [sic]," "Tractatus de Auibus," and "tractatus de Urinis" have special title pages. |
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Headline on A2r varies, may read "pn̋tis" or pűtis." |
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Chancery folio, text printed in 2 columns (prelims. printed in 3); 48 lines per column; col. width: 65 mm.; area of text per page: 216 x 143 mm. With initials spaces and headlines throughout; with printed guide-letters, except in the "Tractatus de Herbis", without foliation and catchwords. |
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Includes seven full-page woodcuts: three seated wise men with six attendants ([A1]v); three men observing eight animals in a zoo ([n1]v); two men observing birds in front of a city ([v1]v); two men on the banks of a river filled with fish and merpeople ([et8]v); four jewellers sitting at tables selling their wares to a crowd of six, with two men standing at a table of jewels in the background ([ee2]v); four physicians examining a bottle of urine in an apothecary, while three apprentices are distracted by two other apprentices fighting ([chi1]b); and two doctors with seven sick people, including 2 children ([²chi6]v); plus, 1066 smaller woodcuts of plants (530), animals (164), birds (122), fish (106), and precious stones (144). |
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Contains indexes. |
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NLM copy imperfect: final leaf (blank) wanting; bleed-through and holes caused by woodcut pigmentation, affecting text and images; some leaves repaired and silked. |
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NLM copy, headline on leaf A2r reads "pűtis". |
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NLM copy, rubrication: large initial on leaf A2r supplied in blue with red border and illuminated in gold leaf; other initials supplied in red or blue; capital strokes and underlinings supplied in red; woodcuts colored in reds, greens, yellows, and browns. |
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NLM copy, contemporary ms. annotations in German throughout, including full page of notes on the t.p. and many German terms for the subjects of the woodcuts in the margins throughout. |
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NLM microfilm copy shelved as: Film 48-54 no. 2 |
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Also available online. |
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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1948. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm. |
| Reproduction Status: |
digitized. |
| Provenance: |
NLM copy provenance: early inscription in red ink on ²E5v following the colophon: "Hu[n]c libr[orum] [con]p[ar]a[ui]t F[rater]. Sigis[mundus] de ... 149 ... tu[n]c t[em]p[or]is qu[ando] fuit prior [?]brunens[is] i[n] s[an]c[t]o Thoma"; bookseller’s ticket of William Wesley, London. DNLM |
| Contents: |
Tractatus de herbis. -- Tractatus de animalibus vitam in terris ducentium. -- Tractatus de auibus. -- Tractatus de Piscibus. -- Tractatus de lapidibus. -- Tractatus de urinus. |
| NLM Unique ID: |
9413026 |
| Other ID Numbers: |
(OCoLC)1237244919 |
