EDITIONS OF “ OrtTUS” 31T 
“The bloom is hot and dry in amazing degree. The blooms and 
the lilies are likened to Our Lady in Scripture, and it says ‘Ego 
flos campi,’ etc.; that is to say, ‘I am a Veltpluom, and a lily 
of the valley.’ Yea, now take notice! it is a light-bestowing 
Veltpluom, when it stands in the pathway of Grace; when the 
sinner comes that way, then the bloom shines out with full mercy, 
and is a lily of the valley where the two mountains rise one over 
against another; justice and mercy; otherwise the sinner were 
. 
LVII. Orrus Saniratis 
Perhaps the earliest post-classical work to present a chapter on 
Aster without admixture with other plants, was the Ortus * Sant- 
tatis, that great storehouse of mediaeval lore, including minerals 
and animals as well as plants, which appeared in many editions for 
forty years or more before 1 517, but whose author and original 
date + remain still unknown and almost without a guess. Meyer 
claims that it existed some time as a Latin manuscript, perhaps 
fifty years or more before the printing of the undated first edition. { 
* Ortus Sanitatis was continuously the form of its name when first printed ; not 
Hortus Sanitatis as now often corrected, with a desire to make it conform to Augustan 
Latin, 
The following outline of the editions of Ortus Sanitatis is based on Pritzel’s 
Thesaurus and Hain’s Repertorium. eee 
OrTus SANITATIS, including De herbis, to fol. 202; Tractatus de Animatlibus, to 
fol. 207; Tract. de lapidibus, to fol. 332; Tract.tus de Urints, to fol. 342. In all ene 
leaves, folio, 2 columns, 54 and 55 lines to the page, without place, date a sears é 
name, with woodcuts, Afain 8941, Pritzel 11876. Two reissues with but slight 
change, are Hain’ s, 8942, 8943. : am 
T491. Ortus S , includes the j g sai? sae 
tionibus ”? or « Zipor ¢ eptimus”? ; folio, 453 leaves, 47 lines to the page, 2 cols., with 
Woodcuts ; printed by Jac. Meydenbach at Mentz, under authority of — cna 
of Mentz, 23 June, 1491. Hain 8344, Pritsel ** 11879 ;...copies seen In Bibl. Dresd., 
: ae Francof., Webb.’’ Hoefer in 1856 mistook this for a Latin translation of the i 
Gart der Gesundheit ; Meyer established the priority of the Latin Ortus in 1857. 
1498. A Strasburg reprint of the last, claimed to be of about 1498; I quote t 
chapter on Aster from a copy in the Congressional Library, Washington, vattel has 
511. Venice, « per Benalium,” an edition used by Meyer, not known to — ; 
A copy (from the Rice library) has recently been added, June, 1902, to the Libr. o} 
the N. Y, Botanical Garden. 
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