Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Ortus sanitatis : de herbis et plantis, de animalibus et reptilibus, de avibus et volatilibus, de piscibus et natatilibus, de lapidibus et in terre venis nascentibus, de urinis et earum speciebus, tabula medicinalis cum directorio generali per omnes tractatus.

Accession number
PML 20604
Published
[Strasbourg : Reinhard Beck], anno 1517.
Notes
Ill. t.p. border by Hans Baldung Grien.
Includes index.
More than 1000 woodcuts; title in red and black with fine woodcut border.
Not in Brunet.
Place of printing and printer from NLM 16th cent.
Signatures: a⁸, b-k⁶, l⁸, m-r⁶, s⁸, t-z⁶, A⁶, B⁸, C-E⁶, F⁸, G-I⁶, K⁸, L-M⁶, N⁸, O-R⁶, S⁸, T-2B⁶, 2C⁸, 2D-2F⁶, 2G⁸, (no Hh), 2I-2K⁸.
Sometimes attributed, by confusion with Gart der Gesundheit, to J. von Cuba.
Description
[708] p. (2 cols., 58 lines) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 29 cm
Provenance
From the collections of the Earl of Ashburnham and C. Fairfax Murray; see his Cat. German Books, no. 195.
Binding
Vellum.
Classification
Department