Gart d[er] gesuntheyt.

Accession number:

PML 25979

Uniform title:

Gart der Gesundheit.

Published:

Augsburg : [Johann Schönsperger], 22 August 1485.

Description:

[370] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1928.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf "a2"r): ...Und nennen diβ bůch zů latein Ortus sanitatis, auff teutsch ein gart d[er] gesuntheyt.
Colophon (leaf X10r): Hÿe hat in end der herbarius in der keyserlichen statt Augspurg Gedruckt und vollendet an montag nechst vor Bartholomaei nach Cristi gepurt M.cccclxxxv.
Printed in Schönsperger's type 1:120G.
Collation: a-z, A-V⁸ T⁸ V⁸ X¹⁰: 370 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
BSB-Ink records under Johann Wonnecke.
Walsh S1-596.4 (& pls.) describes two leaves apparently from an otherwise unknown and perhaps uncompleted reprint of this edition (ISTC).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 19.8 cm.
PML copy with a fallen type (16 x 5 mm, probably a spacer) printed on its side (leaf g5r); see Claire Bolton, "Fallen Type: A Catalogue," Journal of the Printing Historical Society, third series, no. 2 (2021): 29-68, no. FT31. .

Binding:

16th-century German blind-stamped half pigskin over wooden boards (29 x 21.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports; repaired. Roll is dated 1535 just below Lucretia (see EBDB r000301 and Haebler II 9, 4). 2 clasps, wanting. Plain paper pastedowns and flyleaves; plain endbands (modern).

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: No rubrication required. Some woodcuts are hand colored. Annotations: Heavily annotated in German and Latin in margins and final leaves, including medicinal recipes. Additional page of notes added between leaves P2-3. Manuscript note at end of several paragraphs and marginal notations "L. d." Fore-edge title: Herbarius Germanicus.

Provenance:

Erasmus Zolner (1489-1554), "Liber 84" and purchase inscription, 1541 (front pastedown); initials AvZ, 1788 on woodcut (leaf a1v); Arthur Dalrymple (d. 1868/9), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Henry Mere Ormerod (1816-1898), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, August 1928.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Annotations (Provenance)

Pigskin bindings (Binding)

Half bindings (Binding)

Edge titles (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books