ERYNGIUM IN THE AGGREGATOR 309 
about 1473, and may prove to have been the first work printed 
which concerned itself primarily with plants. From the Latin, 
early German and Dutch translations appeared in 1484, and Italian 
in 1538. 
Aster blended with Eryngium.— Iringus,”’ subject of chapter 
76 of the Aggregator, represents the Eryngium of Dioscorides and 
of modern botany, the /rincii of Crescenzi. The chapter is taken 
Pavia was the means of introducing figures from the Pavian Zréario into the Herbo 
larium. Achates may indeed have seen, when in Padua, the fewer figures of the Paduan 
Erbario, and now, by means of Gulielmus, was able to get access to their source at 
ie 
Venice, with misleading title ‘“4rno/di de nova villa Avicenna,’’ calls itself 
in ae. like the others, the ‘‘4ggregator practicus .. simplicibus’” ; ae one in 
the colophon, ‘ Liber ead! Herbolarium de Virtutibus herbarum’’ ; was wn, 
to Meyer but not to Pritzel ; a copy was exhibited in os York by Cade of pee 
in 1901; from my own copy Coppa pea brought to America about 1866), I have 
made the citations above. n knew a copy, his 1807 ; there are two copies in the 
British Museum (one toe. differing. My copy states in the colophon, that it was 
Printed at Venice, December 14, 1499, by ‘* Simon Papiensis dictus Bivilaqua.’’ 
tor calls the printer ‘Simon (de Gabis) heer and lists him as the 12th seis 
of Vicenza, 1487, when he removed to Venice and fair its 12Ist printer, 1492-1500, 
issuing some 39 works, chiefly classical ‘os ; the 35th wa this Her bolarium, in 
c 
2, a reprint of the preceding, by his friend Christophorus de Pensis, July 4, 
1502, Venice, known to Pritzel from Geneva and credited to Bibl. Pa Pensis 
seems to have used the same font of type with Simon de Gabis in 1498 an 
1509, Mar, 15, another reprint, by ‘*Jo. Rubeus et Bernardinus, pie Vercel- 
lenses, ~ Venice. A c copy belonged to Rivinus ; another, the Rice copy, is now in the 
Library of the N. Y. Botanical Gard 
Dutch translation, the editio pees of Pritzel, following Hain, 8449, quoted toed 
Hain as « Een 6 Hebeies of Kruydboek, 1484, 4pis Joh. Veldener Culemburgi,”’ 
(i. e., of Culenberg or Kuilenborg, in Guelderland, near Amster am). Hai 
ved, it is claimed Sd Laurens — of — 
the world in hes ar 1446,” the Coster pedigree. hi 
“wseumm ( Proctor, sgh: Campbell, ay clad eiconanicks Sent a 
~ Veldener began and ended his printing at > > 
erman ; with 
German tra he 
nslation, 1 80? “ Herbarius, with names in 
150 ; a i ; but atte to the edition 
