Accession number
PML 25978
Object title
Gart der Gesundheit.
Uniform title
Hortus sanitatis. German. 1485.
Published
Czu Mencz gedruckt : [Peter Schoeffer], xxviii dage des mercz. Anno. M.cccc.lxxxv [28 March 1485].
Description
[360] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1928.
Notes
BSB-Ink attributes authorship to Johann Wonnecke.
Title from ISTC.
Colophon in red, with device (leaf [45]/7v): "Disser herbarius ist czu mencz gedruckt und geendet dem xxviii dage des mercz. Anno. M.cccc.lxxxv." [Printer's mark]
Printed in Schoeffer's types 7:149G, 8:93G, and 9:149G.
Collation: [1-45⁸]: 360 leaves, leaf [45]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Woodcuts after illustrations by Erhard Reuwich.
Commissioned by Bernhard von Breydenbach.
Edited by Johannes von Cuba.
Full-page woodcut on leaf [1]/1v of 13 men under a bower.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 21 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [45]/8 (blank), and has leaf [45]/1r (index) replaced from another copy, with capital strokes and manuscript plant names.
PML copy has some staining along bottom edge in first few quires.
Title from ISTC.
Colophon in red, with device (leaf [45]/7v): "Disser herbarius ist czu mencz gedruckt und geendet dem xxviii dage des mercz. Anno. M.cccc.lxxxv." [Printer's mark]
Printed in Schoeffer's types 7:149G, 8:93G, and 9:149G.
Collation: [1-45⁸]: 360 leaves, leaf [45]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Woodcuts after illustrations by Erhard Reuwich.
Commissioned by Bernhard von Breydenbach.
Edited by Johannes von Cuba.
Full-page woodcut on leaf [1]/1v of 13 men under a bower.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 21 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [45]/8 (blank), and has leaf [45]/1r (index) replaced from another copy, with capital strokes and manuscript plant names.
PML copy has some staining along bottom edge in first few quires.
Binding
15th-century blind-tooled leather over partially-bevelled wooden boards (29.7 x 22.5 cm) on 3 double bands by the Medingen Dominican cloister workshop near Augsburg (EBDB w002366); repaired by Duprez Lahey. 2 clasps, wanting; catchplates (2.7 x 1.7 cm) stamped "maria." Kite-shaped corner bosses, with raised foliage and inscription around outer edge, "TVOT." Contemporary plain paper pastedowns. Modern (eighteenth/nineteenth-century?) shelf label on top board, "Incun. 2."
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining; hand-colored woodcuts. Annotations: A few marginal annotations throughout. Symbol inscribed to armorial in woodcut (leaf [1]/1v): Lambda with 2 crossed swords (Walther?).
Provenance
Marx Walther (of Augsburg, 1456-1511?), signature and purchase inscription: "das büch gestat 4 kreicer minde' 1 glos'," [i.e. "4 kreuzer less 1 groschen"] (front pastedown)--but looks like slightly different inks; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, 1928.
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