310 AsTER History: THE AGGREGATOR 
from Serapion with additions from ‘‘ Pandecta’’ and Avicenna ; the 
accompanying figure is a singular one and of blended identity, 
showing a stout plant with pinnatifid leaves, spreading and thorny 
above, each branch ending in a flat star-like flower, seemingly 
meant for a small composite disk with five long stiff sharp rays, 
like Matthioli’s Aster-heads drawn in 1560 to represent Padlenis 
spinosa. Perhaps the flower was in part influenced by that latter 
plant; and in part by an attempt to represent words of the Aggre- 
gator’s text, as “ Yringus est species spinae.” That the flower- 
heads suggested, in these radiately-set spines, the likeness to a star, 
was observed as far back as Dioscorides,* who observed that the 
spines are Worep datyo, “spines set just like a star.” Ba 
1484, the Herbarius Moguntiae, printed by Peter Schoeffer, and bearing his e 
shields, Hain, 8444. ritzel knew two copies in Germany, at Vienna and per 
Senckenburgk library at Frankfort. Proctor (1901) records a copy in the Britis 
Tuseum. : 
1485, the Herbarius Pataviae, a reprint of the preceding with little or no change : 
at Passau, Bavaria, not Padua, fide Hain, 8445. Meyer possessed a copy, but meee 
plete. Pritzel knew copies at Vienna and Bibl. Candolleana. Proctor records ice a 
perfect copy in the British Museum : comparison of type convinced him that Its seer 
was Johanni Petri, the chief early printer of Passau (preceded only by —. ‘: 
Mayr, in 1482); it was perhaps the first book printed by him; he used ee ; 
large type, very much like one used by Anton Sorg, the 5th printer of Augsburg , sth 
also a smaller type, apparently the same as the first type used by Conrad Zeninger, © 
rinter of Nuremberg, 
: 1486, reprint of preceding, also, says Pritzel, with very rude figures; he ewe 
copy at Vienna and one in Bibl. Senckenb, at F rankfort, Hain, 8446; who rr 
like the preceding and the next, with 32 lines to the page. (his 
+ 1486? reprint of the preceding, known only from Hain’s imperfect yee 
8447) of which he says the first four leaves are lacking ‘¢ in nostro exemplo. = 
the same issue as the entry for 148 ; ed- 
+ 1486? reprint in typis Reyserianis, 31-33 lines, but same pages a5 ed 2 
ing ; the first five leaves lacking ‘‘ in nostro exemplo ’’; Hain, 8448. : . we 
All of the preceding, 1473 to 1509, are, so far as known, one identical page i 
changed by editing or rearrangement, having the same 150 figures, Adsin¢hium . about 
and are similar small quartos, printed with about 32 lines to the page, and having 
174 leaves. 
in Bibl. 
tzel, who knew its reprints 1539 (in Bibl. Delessert), 154° eal: 
d 
as no confusion of Eryngium with Aster on the part of - 
only two features of strong resemblance in use, those of Eryngium 
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