Liber de arte distillandi de simplicibus : das buch der rechten kunst zü distilieren die eintzige[n] ding / von Hieronymo Brunschwygk.

Accession number:

PML 25986

Author:

Brunschwig, Hieronymus, approximately 1450-approximately 1512.

Published:

Strasbourg : Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 8 May 1500.

Description:

[18], I-CCIX [3] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 32 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1928.

Notes:

298 woodcuts. Ornamental woodcut initials.
Collation: A-B⁸; C-D⁸; E-Z AA-OO⁶: 230 leaves.
Colophon (leaf OO6r): "Hie mit volendt das bůch genant lyber de arte dystillandi de simplicibus vo[n] Jeronimo brunschwyg wundt artzot der keiserlichen fryen statt Straβburg un[d] getruckt durch dem wol geachte[n] Johannem grüeninger zü straβburg in dem achte[n] tag des meyen. Als man zalt von der geurt Christi fünfftzehenhundert. Lob sy got."
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31 x 21.2 cm
PML copy with leaves T5 (CIII) and BB3 (CXXXVII) from another copy.
Printed foliation begins on C3r, the third leaf of Book 1. Mistakes in printed foliation.
Printed in Grüninger's types 15:64G (inscriptions in some woodcuts), 17:145G mixed with 17*:140G (title and headlines), 19:280G (title), and 26:98G (title and text).
Register: quires A-B; Book 1 (methods of distilling): quires C-D; Book 2 (herbal): E1r-Z1r; Book 3 (medicinal uses of distilled herbs): Z2r-OO6r.
Title from title page (leaf A1r).

Binding:

Contemporary blind-tooled half pigskin over wooden boards (32.3 x 22 cm), sewn on four supports by Römhild-Bibliothek, Speyer (see Schwenke/Schunke II:241); repaired at top of spine. Modern plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; original plain endbands. 2 wedge-shaped brass clasps. Modern leather title label on spine.

Variant Title:

Kleines Destillierbuch.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notes in several hands, in Latin and German. Sections of text underlined.

Provenance:

Gilhofer & Ranschburg, unidentified catalogue; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, 1928.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula