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About this Item

Title

  • Ortus sanitatis.

Names

  • Meydenbach, Jakob, active 15th century, printer.
  • Lutzenburger, Anthonius, active 1573-1579, former owner.
  • Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
  • Schmidt, Paul, 1834-1907, former owner.
  • Benediktinerkloster St. Maximin (Trier, Germany), former owner.
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
  • Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Mainz, Jacob Meydenbach, 23 June 1491.

Headings

  • -  Materia medica--Early works to 1800
  • -  Medicine, Medieval--Early works to 1800
  • -  Botany, Medical--Early works to 1800
  • -  Botany--Pre-Linnean works
  • -  Herbs--Early works to 1800
  • -  Natural history--Pre-Linnean works
  • -  Germany--Rhineland-Palatinate--Mainz

Genre

  • Incunabula--Germany--Rhineland-Palatinate--Mainz--1491

Notes

  • -  Tractatus de animalibus vitam in terris ducentium, Tractatus de avibus (including De piscibus, De lapidibus), and Tractatus de urinis have special title pages.
  • -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 152
  • -  Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, H-486
  • -  Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 8944
  • -  Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, p. 44 (IB.343)
  • -  IGI 4900
  • -  LC copy imperfect: leaf [454] wanting, leaf [1] repaired.

Medium

  • [454] leaves (the last blank, wanting). woodcuts: illus. 29.4 cm. (fol.)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Incun. 1491 .H75
  • Incun. 1491 .H75 Copy 2 Copy 2. 31.5 cm. Imperfect: leaf [1] in facsimile; without the final blank. Leaf [2a] headline: pūtis (copy 1: pñtis). Partly rubricated; ms. notes and drawings. Monogram P.A.L, with date 1473 and 1579 on leaves [2a] and [144b], probably for Fr. Anthonius Lutzenburger, who signed leaf [144b]. Provenance: inscription on leaf [2a]: Ex libris Imperialis Monasterij S. Maximinij; From the library of C. Fairfax Murray.
  • Incun. 1491 .H75 Copy 3 Copy 3. 31.7 cm. Imperfect: leaf [1] in facsimile; all after leaf [448] wanting. Leaf [2a] headline: pūtis. Leaves [443-448] misbound after leaf [436]. Bookplate of Paul Schmidt.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 48043418

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Meydenbach, Jakob, Active 15Th Century, Printer, Anthonius Lutzenburger, Charles Fairfax Murray, Paul Schmidt, Former Owner Benediktinerkloster St. Maximin, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, and Otto Vollbehr Collection. Ortus Sanitatis. Mainz, Jacob Meydenbach, 23 June, 1491. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/48043418/.

APA citation style:

Meydenbach, J., Lutzenburger, A., Murray, C. F., Schmidt, P., Benediktinerkloster St. Maximin, F. O., Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection & Otto Vollbehr Collection. (1491) Ortus Sanitatis. Mainz, Jacob Meydenbach, 23 June. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/48043418/.

MLA citation style:

Meydenbach, Jakob, Active 15Th Century, Printer, et al. Ortus Sanitatis. Mainz, Jacob Meydenbach, 23 June, 1491. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/48043418/>.