tih00488000

Text-inc Id:

tih00488000

Bod-inc Id:

H-221

Headings:

Hortus Sanitatis

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page for the book.]
2. a2r Hortus sanitatis: De herbis. Incipit: ‘Prohemium. [O]mnipotentis eternique dei totius nature creatoris opera mirabilia admirandaque . . .’ The entry for each herb takes the following form: a woodcut, a discussion of the forms of its name, etc., and ‘Operationes', a discussion of its properties.
3. A1r [Title-page for De animalibus.]
4. A1r [A skeleton with names of bones indicated.] Incipit:`Homo natus de muliere breui viuens tempore . . .’
5. A2r Hortus sanitatis: De animalibus. Incipit: ‘Prologus in tractatum de animalibus. [Q]uoniam in prioribus diuino nobis assistente auxilio . . .’ The entry for each animal takes the following form: a woodcut, a discussion of the forms of its name, etc., and, in some cases, ‘Operationes', a discussion of its attributes.
6. G4r Hortus sanitatis: De avibus. Incipit: ‘Prologus. [E]xpeditoque tractatu secundo de proprietatibus videlicet animalium . . .’ The entry for each bird takes the following form: a woodcut, a discussion of the forms of its name, etc., and, in some cases, ‘Operationes', a discussion of its attributes.
7. L5v Hortus sanitatis: De piscibus. Incipit: ‘Prohemium. [I]am in precedenti tractatu locuti sumus de volatilibus qui in genere animalium videntur . . .’ The entry for each fish takes the following form: a woodcut, a discussion of the forms of its name, etc., and, in some cases, ‘Operationes', a discussion of its attributes.
8. <PqrsT>6r Hortus sanitatis: De lapidibus. Incipit: ‘Prohemium. [S]eneca in naturalibus questionibus libro septimo dicit: Sicut in nobis non tantum est sanguis . . .’ The entry for each stone takes the following form: a woodcut, a discussion of the forms of its name, etc., and, in most cases, ‘Operationes', a discussion of its properties.
9. aa1r [Title-page for De urinis.]
10. aa2r Hortus sanitatis: De urinis. Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam medicus est artifex sensitiuus vt per signa in egritudinum causas deueniat . . .’
11. cc1r [Tables of contents.]

Imprint:

[Strasbourg: Johann Prüss, c.1497]. Folio. As dated by CIBN and BSB‑Ink; the Ottobeuren copy has an owner's note with the date 1498; Sheppard dates [c.1495?].

Collation:

a⁸ b–k⁶ l⁸ m–r⁶ s⁸ t–z Aa⁶ Bb⁸ Cc–Ee⁶ Ff⁸ Gg–Ii⁶ A⁸ B C⁶ D⁸ E–H⁶ I⁸ K–O V⁶ X⁸ Y Z⁶ [et]⁸ aa⁶ bb⁴ cc–ee⁶. Woodcuts: see Schramm XX p. 27 and pls 1495-1608.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ih00488000 HC *8942; R, Supplement, 197 (gatherings aa bb only); Goff H‑488; not in Pr; BSB‑Ink H‑390; CIBN H‑296; Ilona Hubay, Incunabula aus der staatlichen Bibliothek Neuburg/Donau und in der benedektinerabtei Ottobeuren (Wiesbaden, 1970), no. 222; Klebs, ‘Herbals', 50, no. 2; Polain 2002; Schramm XX p. 27; Schreiber V 4249; Sheppard 438; VL IV 154-63, at 159-60. Microfiche: Unit 12: Medical Incunabula: Part II. LCN: 14463246

Copies:

1. H-221(1) Copy Title as Polain, not HC. Binding: Nineteenth-century(?) half calf; marbled paper boards. Damaged spine. Size: 304 × 212 × 70 mm. Size of leaf: 294 × 196 mm. Occasional early marginal annotations. On a2r a seven-line initial ‘O' and on aa2r a seven-line initial ‘Q' are supplied in red, with reserved white decoration, further decorated with red pen-work and with extensions into the margins; other two- to six-line initials, capital strokes, and underlining are supplied in red. Provenance: Thomas Ryburn Buchanan (1846-1911). Presented by Mrs Buchanan in 1941. SHELFMARK: Buchanan c.25.