Incipit Tractatus de uirtutibus herbarum, [27 Oct. 1491]
- Title(s):
- Incipit Tractatus de uirtutibus herbarum.
- Additional Title(s):
Incipit Tractatus de virtutibus herbarum
Tractatus de virtutibus herbarum
De virtutibus herbarum
Herbarius.- Published/Created:
- [Vicenza] : [Leonardus (Achates) de Basilea and Gulielmus de Papia], [27 Oct. 1491]
- Physical Description:
- [4], cl, [18] leaves (first and 156th leaves blank) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 20 cm. (4to)
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsLeaf Collection no. 0609Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4066831
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Med: Contemporary Italian binding. Described by Scott Husby, 2011.
Title from incipit on leaf pi2.
Frequently wrongly attributed to Arnaldus de Villanova.
This edition, without synonyms, is the first known Italian edition of the anonymous Herbarius.--Cf. BM 15th cent.
Imprint from Goff.
Colophon (leaf t6v) reads: Finiunt Liber uocatur herbolarium de uirtutibus herbrum. Impressum Vincentiae per Magistrum Leonardum de Basiliea & Guilielmum de Papia Socios. Anno salutis. M.cccc.lxxxxi. die. xxvii. men[sis] Octob[ris].
Signatures: pi⁴ a-x⁸ (pi1 and t8 blank); c3, e4, and o3 signed c2, 4e, and p3, respectively.
Leaves xxii, cxiii, and cxix misnumbered xviii, cxix, and cxiii.
Chancery quarto; 33 lines; area of text: 144 x 89 mm. With woodcut initials; woodcut border on leaf pi2; initial spaces with guide-letters from leaf u2 until the end; paragraph marks and headlines; without catchwords.
Includes 150 woodcut illustrations of plants. Woocut illustration at top of leaf pi2 depicts two men who are identified in letterpress as "Arnoldi de Nova Villa" and "Avicenna."
BSB-Ink. H-103
Klebs 506.10
Incunabula short title catalogue, ih00068000
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, H68
Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 8451
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 12276
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VII, p. 1033 (IA. 31731)
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0609: Imperfect: 10 leaves only. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink. - Subject Terms:
- Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.Botany, Medical.Herbs -- Therapeutic use -- Early works to 1800.Incunabula in Yale Library.Materia medica, Vegetable.Medicinal plants.Medicine, Botanic.Werther, Frederick, 1881- -- Ownership.
- Form/Genre:
- Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
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