IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 279252 accession number: PB 166-2020 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 17 December 2020 updated: Thursday 17 December 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hortus sanitatis. On title page, title of each treatise (beginning with "De") is printed on a new line; last three letters of "nasce[n]tibus" are printed at end of previous line following a blank space. Remainder of title beginning with "Tabula" printed on two lines. Place of printing and name of printer from Incunabula short title catalogue. Approximate date of printing from Incunabula short title catalogue. Original edition published in Mainz by Jacob Meydenbach, 1491. Illustrations: 3 full-page woodcuts and 1064 column-width woodcuts in the text (with repetitions). The large cuts are: magister or physician (in white shoes) sitting and four students standing, on title page verso (a1v); human skeleton, on leaf A1v; and apothecary shop (with apothecary or student, sitting, and physician, standing; two shelves and two stars), on leaf 2a1v. The first and last of these are from Hieronymus Brunschwig, Chirurgia (Buch der Cirurgia), Strasbourg, Johann Grüninger, 4 July 1497; the skeleton is also found in some copies of the Chirurgia as part of an appendix "Von der Anathomi," which may also have been issued separately (see Sudhoff, K. Deutsche medizinische Inkunabeln, no. 56). Many of the small cuts are from the blocks used by Meydenbach in the 1491 edition; others are from the Grüninger edition of Gart der Gesundheit (Strasbourg, after 31 March 1487). Old classmark: 370. Binding: 15th century vellum; spine hand-lettered; a.e. sprinkled red. Materia medica Early works to 1800. Medicine, Medieval. Botany Pre-Linnean works. Botany, Medical Early works to 1800. Herbals Early works to 1800. Zoology Pre-Linnean works. Zoology, Medical Early works to 1800. Natural history Pre-Linnean works. Urine Analysis Early works to 1800. title: PB 166-2020 NOTES ----- type: history note value: Provenance: bequeathed by J.R. Holliday 1927 (bk. label). Ms. inscr. on front free e.p.: 'C.T. Swanston Esq from his thanked friend W. Pettigrew Apr 25, 1839'. Old classmark & booksellers' codes on front paste-down e.p. Ms. annotations. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/279252 DATING ------ CREATORS -------- maker: Prüss, Johann, maker: Pettigrew, W., maker: Swanston, Clement Tudway, maker: Holliday, J. R., DIMENSIONS ---------- value: [360] leaves : ill, woodcuts ; 31cm (fol).