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Hans Weiditz 



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independently at what was perhaps its high-water mark of ex- 

 cellence, but it is in Brunfels' great work that we find it, for 

 the first time, applied to the illustration of a botanical book. 



Text-fig. 83. "Kucher\sche\\' = Anemone Pulsatilla L., Pasque-flower 

 [Brunfels, Herbarum vivae eicones, Vol. I. 1530]. Reduced. 



The illustrations in Brunfels' herbal were engraved, 

 and probably drawn also, by Hans Weiditz, or Guiditius, 

 some of whose work has been ascribed to Albrecht Diirer. 



