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— and a harpy with its claws in a man's body. Other 

 monsters which are figured include a dragon, the Basilisk, 

 Pegasus, and a bird with a long neck which is tied in an 

 ornamental knot. 



Later Latin editions of the Ortus Sanitatis were 

 printed in Germany and Italy, and translations were also 

 popular. The part of the book dealing with animals and 



Text-fig. 1 6. " Ambra " = Amber [Ortus Sanitatis, 

 Mainz, 1491]. 



stones was produced in German under the name of ' Gart 

 der Gesuntheit ; zu Latin Ortus Sanitatis,' so as to form a 

 supplement to the German Herbarius, which dealt, as we 

 have seen, almost exclusively with herbs. No really com- 

 plete translation of the H ortus was ever published, except 



