Accession number
PML 25981
Published
[Venice : Bernardinus Benalius & Joannes Tacuinus, 11 Aug., 1511]
Notes
1st printing in Italy of the Latin Hortus, modeled after the Strassburg edition of Prüss.
Collation: leaf 1a: title in woodcut border: Ortus Sanitatis De herbis, etc. Leaf 203: Tractatus de Animalibus; leaf 333: Tractatus de Urinis et liber Galieni ... ; leaf 351: tables; leaf 367b: colophon.
Signatures: a⁸, b-k⁶, ℓ⁸, m-r⁶, s⁸, t-z⁶, Aa⁶, Bb⁸, Cc-Ee⁶, Ff⁸, Gg-Ii⁶, A⁸, B-C⁶, D⁸, E-H⁶, I⁸, K-Q⁶, R⁸, S-T⁶, U⁸, Aa-ff⁶ (ff6 blank).
Colophon: Impressum Venetiis per Bernardinum Benalium: et Joannem de Cereto de Tridino alias Tacuinum. Anno Domini. M.cccccxi. die. xi. augusti ...
Title within ornamental border. Spaces for capitals with guide letters. Size of leaf 2a: 232 x 151 mm., page size 315 x 210 mm.
"Tractatus de animalibus" & "Tractatus de urinis" have divisional t.p. with woodcut on verso.
Galen's "De facile acquisibilibus" (bk. 2 of De remediis facile parabilibus): leaves bb5r-cc5v.
Woodcuts: full page cuts, in borders on leaves 1b and 333b; an anatomical man on leaf 203b; many small cuts from Prüss.
Collation: leaf 1a: title in woodcut border: Ortus Sanitatis De herbis, etc. Leaf 203: Tractatus de Animalibus; leaf 333: Tractatus de Urinis et liber Galieni ... ; leaf 351: tables; leaf 367b: colophon.
Signatures: a⁸, b-k⁶, ℓ⁸, m-r⁶, s⁸, t-z⁶, Aa⁶, Bb⁸, Cc-Ee⁶, Ff⁸, Gg-Ii⁶, A⁸, B-C⁶, D⁸, E-H⁶, I⁸, K-Q⁶, R⁸, S-T⁶, U⁸, Aa-ff⁶ (ff6 blank).
Colophon: Impressum Venetiis per Bernardinum Benalium: et Joannem de Cereto de Tridino alias Tacuinum. Anno Domini. M.cccccxi. die. xi. augusti ...
Title within ornamental border. Spaces for capitals with guide letters. Size of leaf 2a: 232 x 151 mm., page size 315 x 210 mm.
"Tractatus de animalibus" & "Tractatus de urinis" have divisional t.p. with woodcut on verso.
Galen's "De facile acquisibilibus" (bk. 2 of De remediis facile parabilibus): leaves bb5r-cc5v.
Woodcuts: full page cuts, in borders on leaves 1b and 333b; an anatomical man on leaf 203b; many small cuts from Prüss.
Description
[735] p. (2 cols., 53 lines) : ill. ; 31 cm
Binding
Vellum with ties.
Classification
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