Accession number
PML 25987
Creator
Brunfels, Otto, 1488-1534.
Published
Argentorati : Apud Ioannem Schottum librarium, Anno MDXXX-MDXXXII [1530-1532]
Credit line
Purchased in 1928.
Notes
Volume 2 has title: Novi herbarii tomvs II ... recens editus, M.D. XXXI.
Dates from colophons, on last page of each vol.
Title of t. 1 printed in red and black with pictorial border. Red coloring added by stencil.
Woodcuts by Hans Weiditz. His device is on the last printed page of vol. 2.
Signatures, part 1: A⁴ a⁶ b⁴ c-z⁶ A-F⁴ G⁶, leaf G6 blank; part 2: A⁸ B-G⁶ H⁴, leaf H4 blank; A-C⁶ D⁴ E-Q⁶ R⁴ S⁶, leaf S6 blank.
Historiated initials; several pages of text enclosed in historiated border (t. 1, p. 1, 21-22 (2nd group); t. 2, p. [3] (1st group), p. 1 (4th group).
Coat of arms of Strassburg printed in red and black on verso of p. [8] (1st group), t. 1.
Pagination errors.
Includes indexes.
A third volume was published posthumously in 1536.
Dates from colophons, on last page of each vol.
Title of t. 1 printed in red and black with pictorial border. Red coloring added by stencil.
Woodcuts by Hans Weiditz. His device is on the last printed page of vol. 2.
Signatures, part 1: A⁴ a⁶ b⁴ c-z⁶ A-F⁴ G⁶, leaf G6 blank; part 2: A⁸ B-G⁶ H⁴, leaf H4 blank; A-C⁶ D⁴ E-Q⁶ R⁴ S⁶, leaf S6 blank.
Historiated initials; several pages of text enclosed in historiated border (t. 1, p. 1, 21-22 (2nd group); t. 2, p. [3] (1st group), p. 1 (4th group).
Coat of arms of Strassburg printed in red and black on verso of p. [8] (1st group), t. 1.
Pagination errors.
Includes indexes.
A third volume was published posthumously in 1536.
Description
2 parts: [8], 266, [64]; [6], 11 [i.e. 5]-90, [2] (blank), 199 [i.e. 201], [5] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 32 cm (fol.)
Inscriptions/Markings
Contemporary hand coloring to title pages.
Provenance
Johann Eckel, of Wolfhagen (Hesse), inscription: "Ex libris Joannis Eckelij Wolffhagensis" (title page); unidentified inscription: "Dr. O. F. U[???]" (title page); Karl Becher (1857-1934), of Karlsbad, part of his collection sold through: L'art ancien S. A. (Lugano), A Catalogue of Early Herbals, Bulletin XII (1925), no. 69, entire collection purchased by: Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., sold to: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1928.
Binding
16th-century blind-tooled leather over paper boards; rebacked. 16th-century German/Dutch? manuscript leaves as front and rear pastedowns.
Classification
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