Annotated Books : Herbarum Imagines Vivae : der kreuter lebliche Contrafaytung.

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Herbarum Imagines Vivae : der kreuter lebliche Contrafaytung. (1196)

Information about this document

  • Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
  • Collection: Medical (pre-1701) Printed Collection
  • Classmark: 1196
  • Title: Herbarum Imagines Vivae : der kreuter lebliche Contrafaytung.
  • Language(s): German
  • Publication: Francoforti : Christianus Egenolphus excudebat, 1535-1536.
  • Origin Place: Germany, Frankfurt.
  • Date of Creation: 1535
  • Former Owner(s):
  • Note(s):

    Signatures: A-L⁴; a-e⁴, f².

    Publication dates from colophon: Part one, 1535, Part two, 1536.

    For Fuchs's attack on Egenolph see Fuchs' Historia Stirpium and Fuchs: Primi de stirpium historia commentariorum tomi vivae imagines, 1545, Intro. p. [iv-v]

    Separate title-page for second item reads: Imaginum Herbarum, Pars II. Andertheyl der kreuter Conterfeytungenn. Francoforti, Christianus Egenolphus Hadamarius excudebat.

    Date of first part from colophon. Volume dated on spine 1535-36. Haller. Bibl. Botan. 1, p. 275 gives Pars II as pub. 1535.

  • Format: Codex
  • Extent: 2 parts in 1 (40, [4]; 20, [2] leaves), ill., 20 cm (4º) Leaf height: 200 mm, width: 150 mm.
  • Decoration:

    Woodcuts are hand-coloured.

  • Additions: MS annotations throughout; interleaved with MS notes in several hands in Latin, German and English
  • Binding:

    Contemporary[?] goatskin over boards with blind-tooled panel design.

  • Provenance:

    MS inscriptions on front paste-down relating to R.H, dated 1559; MS inscription on title-page: Wm: Sadler: 1573: July 15; MS inscriptions on front fly-leaf recto: [1] Will. Briggs his book / Anno 1661 / Octob: 28, [2] Richard Briggs his / Booke Anno Dom / 1667, [3] Richard Briggs his / Booke Anno Dom / July ye 27th; MS inscription on interleaved recto after sig. H³: John Briggs; MS inscription on interleaved recto after sig. E⁴: pauper ubique jacet / Johannes Jacob; MS inscriptions on front fly-leaf recto: [1] T. [Thomas?] Kerrich / M.M.C. / 1778, [2] NB. I had this book from Canterbury [TK monogram]; MS inscription on title-page: T.W. [Thomas Windsor] / Feb. 25, 1879; presentation label on front paste-down: This volume was given to the Manchester Medical Society by R.C. Christie Esq. of Manchester 4th March 1879; inkstamp throughout: Manchester Medical Society.

  • Bibliography:
    Recorded in University of Manchester Library Search


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    Information about this document

    • Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
    • Collection: Medical (pre-1701) Printed Collection
    • Classmark: 1196
    • Title: Herbarum Imagines Vivae : der kreuter lebliche Contrafaytung.
    • Language(s): German
    • Publication: Francoforti : Christianus Egenolphus excudebat, 1535-1536.
    • Origin Place: Germany, Frankfurt.
    • Date of Creation: 1535
    • Former Owner(s):
    • Note(s):

      Signatures: A-L⁴; a-e⁴, f².

      Publication dates from colophon: Part one, 1535, Part two, 1536.

      For Fuchs's attack on Egenolph see Fuchs' Historia Stirpium and Fuchs: Primi de stirpium historia commentariorum tomi vivae imagines, 1545, Intro. p. [iv-v]

      Separate title-page for second item reads: Imaginum Herbarum, Pars II. Andertheyl der kreuter Conterfeytungenn. Francoforti, Christianus Egenolphus Hadamarius excudebat.

      Date of first part from colophon. Volume dated on spine 1535-36. Haller. Bibl. Botan. 1, p. 275 gives Pars II as pub. 1535.

    • Format: Codex
    • Extent: 2 parts in 1 (40, [4]; 20, [2] leaves), ill., 20 cm (4º) Leaf height: 200 mm, width: 150 mm.
    • Decoration:

      Woodcuts are hand-coloured.

    • Additions: MS annotations throughout; interleaved with MS notes in several hands in Latin, German and English
    • Binding:

      Contemporary[?] goatskin over boards with blind-tooled panel design.

    • Provenance:

      MS inscriptions on front paste-down relating to R.H, dated 1559; MS inscription on title-page: Wm: Sadler: 1573: July 15; MS inscriptions on front fly-leaf recto: [1] Will. Briggs his book / Anno 1661 / Octob: 28, [2] Richard Briggs his / Booke Anno Dom / 1667, [3] Richard Briggs his / Booke Anno Dom / July ye 27th; MS inscription on interleaved recto after sig. H³: John Briggs; MS inscription on interleaved recto after sig. E⁴: pauper ubique jacet / Johannes Jacob; MS inscriptions on front fly-leaf recto: [1] T. [Thomas?] Kerrich / M.M.C. / 1778, [2] NB. I had this book from Canterbury [TK monogram]; MS inscription on title-page: T.W. [Thomas Windsor] / Feb. 25, 1879; presentation label on front paste-down: This volume was given to the Manchester Medical Society by R.C. Christie Esq. of Manchester 4th March 1879; inkstamp throughout: Manchester Medical Society.

    • Bibliography:
      Recorded in University of Manchester Library Search

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    • Title: [Title-page, part one]

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    • Title: [colophon, part one]

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    • Title: [Title-page, part two]

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    • Title: [colophon, part two]

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