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Title Variants

Uniform: Herbarius

By

Schöffer, Peter, ca. 1425-ca 1502
Peter Schoeffer.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 1484

Notes

Names of herbs in Latin and German; text in Latin.

Title from incipit; uniform title and imprint from Goff.

State B, ii with first leaf blank, leaves 42 and 48 exchanged, and leaf 75 correctly numbered. Leaf [2], last group of foliation, blank.

W.L. Schreiber identifies this as the 3rd impression. Cf. Schreiber, p. VI.

150 plants described, each numbered and accompanied by a woodcut.

Gatherings unsigned.

Goff | H-62

Choulant, L. Graphische Incunabeln für Naturgeschichte und Bibliographie ..., | p. 15, no. 5

Schreiber, W.L. Die Kräuterbücher des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts. (In Hortus sanitatis, p. [I-LV]), | p. IV-VI

Includes index.

Subjects

Botany , Botany, Medical , Early works to 1800 , Herbals , Herbs , Materia medica, Vegetable , Medicinal plants , Medicine, Medieval , Pictorial works , Pre-Linnean works , Therapeutic use

BHL Collections

Blog Features

Missouri Botanical Garden's Materia Medica

Missouri Botanical Garden's Rare Books Collection

Call Number

QK41.S36 [#111]

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.564
OCLC: 20816844