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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
![Ortus sanitatis : de herbis et plantis. De animalibus [et] reptilibus de auibus et volatilibus de piscibus [et] natatilibus de lapidibus [et] in terre venis nasce[n]tibus de vrinis et ea[rum] speciebus tabula medicinalis cum directorio generali per omnes tractatus](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4UN3LAT%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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With three full-page woodcuts, and 1061 illustrations of plants, animals and minerals. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 29.8 x 21.2 cm. Text in two columns. Capital spaces with guide letters. Signatures: a⁸ b-k⁶ l⁸ m-r⁶ s⁸ t-z⁶ 2A⁶ 2B⁸ 2C-2E⁶ 2F⁸ 2G-2I⁶ A⁸ B-C⁶ D⁸ E-H⁶ I⁸ K-Q⁶ R⁸ S-T⁸ V⁸ 2a⁶ 2b⁴ 2c-2e⁶. "Tractatus de animalibus" and "Tractatus de urinis" have separate half-titles on leaves A1r and 2a1r respectively. Binding: contemporary German blindstamped calf over wooden boards; white deerskin[?] spine; label with ms. title on front. In box.
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![Hier beghinnen de titelen d[at] sijn de namen der boeken daer men af spreke[n] sal en[de] oec die capittelen der eerwaerdighen mans bartolome[us] engelsman en[de] een gheoerdent broeder van sinte franciscus oerde Ende hee[f]t xix. boeke[n] die sprekende sijn vande eygenscappen der dingen](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4KFK8EN%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Chancery folio, with paper measuring 26.9 x 19.5 cm. Text printed in double columns; 40 lines per col.; col. width: 6.6 cm.; area of text: 20 x 14.1 cm. With initial spaces, guide-letters, and signatures; without foliation and catchwords. Includes 11 full-page woodcut illustrations: Almighty God seated in glory (a1v); the creation of angels and fall of demons (a8v); the creation of Eve and anatomical man (c4v); the ages of man, a physician and surgeon attending patients (m7v); the earth and the spheres ([long s]7v); occupations of the months (u2v); birds (y7v); fishes ([z with a crossbar]7v); a landscape showing a river and towns, etc. (A1v); trees and plants (F1v); and animals and reptiles (Q2v). Signatures: 2a⁶ 2b⁴ a-r⁸ [rounded r]⁸ [long s]⁸ s-t⁸ v⁸ u⁸ w⁸ x-z⁸ [z with crossbar]⁸ [con]⁶ ẽ⁶ A-V⁸ W⁸ X-Y⁸ 2A-2B⁸ 2C-2D⁶ 2E⁸. (2a1, ẽ6, and 2E8 blank). Imperfect: blank leaves 2a1, ẽ6 and 2E8 lacking. Binding error: gatherings 2a and 2b misbound at end. Large initial on leaf a2r in blue and red; subsequent initials in red. Binding: brown morocco; binder's stamp: Club Bindery 1899.
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![Hie nach volgt das buch der natur. : Innhaltende zum ersten vo[n] eigenschafft vnd natur dess menschen. Darnach von der natur vn[d] eigenschafft dess hymels. d[e] tier. des gefugels. der kreüter. d[e] stein. vn[d] von vilandern natürlichen dingen](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN412TCKX%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Includes fourteen full page woodcut illustrations. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 26.6 x 19 cm. Text in one column, measuring approximately 20.5 x 12.9. Woodcut initials. Signatures: pi² a⁸ b-z⁶ A-E⁶ (E6 blank). Imperfect: leaves a1 and B1 lacking and replaced with facsimiles. Binding: contemporary German half blindstamped calfskin and beech boards.
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Done at the behest of, and dedicated to, the Archbishop of Mexico City, Alonso de Montúfar. Colophon on verso of leaf 404: Ad laudem Dei et gloriosissimae matris eius, nec non omnium sanctorum, & ad profectum & vtilitatem fidelium, sub sedis Apostolicae, ac piorum omnium benigna correctione, summariu[m] omniu[m] sacramentorum à reuerendo patre fratre Bartholomaeo à Ledesma pr[a]edicatoriae familiae ac sacrae theologiae magistro aeditum, foeliciter finem habet. Excussum Mexici, apud Antonium de Espinosa Anno Domini 1566. Die .25. me[n]sis Februarij. Numerous foliation errors. Woodcut coat of arms of Archbishop Montúfar and cartouche on title page, woodcut diagrams on leaves 352v and 373v, printer's device in colophon (leaf 404v), ornamented initials. Errata on verso of leaf [4], 1st count, and on leaf [16] at end. In Latin, with some of the prefatory material in Spanish. Signatures: [Maltese cross]⁴ A-2C⁸ 2D⁴ 2E-2Z⁸ 2& ⁸ 2a-2f⁸. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Text in Spanish and Nahuatl; Psalms are written in Nahuatl. Woodcut vignette on t.p. of Christ on the Cross. Foliation errors: leaf numbers 67, 69, 77, 203, and 212 are incorrectly numbered 57, 59, 72, 103, and 217 respectively. Signatures: pi⁴ A-Z⁸ &⁸ 2A-2E⁸ 2F⁴. Leaf C3 missigned as C, and leaf 2F2 as 2F3.
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A commentary on Hippocrates's Aphorisms and Galen's Tegni; some fragments of Hippocrates's text, translated into Latin, are included. Edited by Johannes Antonius Terzagus. The commentary on Hippocrates's Aphorisms is incomplete: although the signed gatherings agree with the printed register and the text between 2C8v and 2D1r is consistent, the text between 2D6v (which ends with "morbus aut") and 2E1r (which begins the commentary on Galen's Tegni) is not. Super-chancery folio, with paper measuring 31.9 x 21.4 cm. Text printed in 2 columns; 66 lines per column; col. width: 7.8 mm.; area of text: 24.1 x 16.3 cm. With paragraph marks, headlines, and woodcut initials; without catchwords. Publisher's device on verso of leaf 73. Foliation errors: leaves 30 and 49 misnumbered as 32 and 49, respectively. Signatures: 2A-2C⁸ 2D⁶ 2E-2H⁸ 2I-2K⁶ (2K6 blank). Modern binding using a leaf from a medieval Italian[?] antiphonal manuscript as covering.
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