322 Aster History; THE GART DER GESUNDHEIT 
LVIII. Tue Gart DER GESUNDHEIT 
This work, which often appears under the title Herbarius,* or 
Der grosser Herbarius, is a German translation ¢ from the Latin 
Ortus Sanitatis, chiefly confined to the plant-chapters, containing 
435 chapters in all, of which 15 are on animals, II on minerals, 
and the remainder, 409, on plants. The translator was Dr. Johann 
Wonnecke (or Dronnecke) von Cuba, also called Cube and C’aubf, 
who was first a physician of Augsburg, and became city physician of 
Frankfort, 1484-1495. Usually he translates exactly the words of 
the Ortus ; so mostly in the chapter on Aster, but sometimes he 
omits a few words or a clause, as, in Aster, the clause stating that 
it is most often found by shepherds. Otherwise this chapter is a 
direct translation of that in the Ortus. 
The chapter on Aster is no. 431, and is headed “ Unguirialis, 
Sternkraut oder Krotterkrut.” Apuleius’ story of the aster shin- 
ing by night loses nothing in the German translation, and the 
‘‘phantasm” the ancient traveller thinks he sees in it, now 
becomes a devil; I quote that sentence, in its Moguntian dialect, 
from my copy of the first edition, Mentz, 1485. 
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” ® See supra, p. 
t Its editio yet ah is held to be that of Mentz, 1485, Mar. 28, with superior 
Fust, Gutten 
berg’s partner (ex /idr. Bu.; this is Pritzel’s 11884, Proctor’s are Hain 
8949. 
Copies were found by Pritzel at seca and Frankfort: and one is in the British 
Museum. 
Pritzel regarded several undated editions of Augsburg and of Mentz as ee: but 
Meyer does not. Many other editions followed, known by the printer’s name ; 
apt to be also editor ; as follows : 
Augsburg, by Anton Sorg, 1485, 1486. 
Augsburg, Se pea s oe many editions by Hannsen Schonspergely 
1486, 1488, etc., to 1502. Ulm 
Strasburg, We Kreuterbuch i Neiaes Pruss, 1507, 1509 
Strasburg, the Avexterbuch of Renatus Beck, 1515, 1521, 1524, 1528. 
oe the Kreuterbuch of Balthasar Beck, 1530. 
Frankfort, Rhodion’s Ki oes 15 mag ; printed by Ie rae 
** Kreutterbuch...von Dr. Joha a...new corrigirt, und.. Bisa rt.. bir 
Distillirbuch, Small folio, ate, 2 ff., xylog. Mar. 26, 15 by Buucharis oe 
di or Réslin, City Physician of Frankfort. Reprinted 1540, with Kd a ie 
and 1550 
For lat er Kreuterbuchs to 1783, founded on this but remodeled under the names of 
Lonitzer, Pikesha’s and Ehrhart, see iz/ra, under those names. 
oefer calls the translator “* Dr. Jean Cuba, M.D., German 
the first authors who treated of natural history with addition of figures to his & 
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