Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Macer, Floridus
Title:
De viribus herbarum carmen.
Published / Created:
[Geneva] : [Jacques Vivian?], [1501-1606?]
Physical Description:
1 volume : illustrations ; 19 cm (4to)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0971
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Macer Floridus may be a pseud. for Odo Magdunensis, who may have lived in France between 1070 and 1112. Cf. B.P. Flood, "The medieval herbal tradition of Macer Floridus," Pharmacy in History, 18:2 (1976), p. 62-6.

Imprint supplied from Incunabula short title catalogue.

On the printer and the date, see H. Delarue in Genava 2 (1924) pp. 177-86. Two issues are known (H 10417 etc. and R 972 etc.) with the title page differently set up. Proctor assigned to Paris. The copy in Munich BSB has a MS date 1506.

Signatures: a-f8 g4.

Incunabula short title catalogue, im00005500

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, M4

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 10417*

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M19658

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VIII, page 371 (IA 38498)

BAC Leaf Collection no. 0971: Imperfect: leaves a2, b2, b3, a5, c3 and f7 only. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership. | Incunabula in Yale Library.
Form/Genre:
Incunabula. | Woodcuts. | Fragments (object portions)