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Description
Title and imprint from colophon. Full colophon reads: Gedruckt vnd seligklich volendet diser Herbarius durch Hannsen Schönsperger in der Keyserlichen stat Augspurg am Montagnach vnnsers herzen hymelfart. Nach Christi geburdt tausent vierhundert. vn[d] in dem neün undneüntzigisten iare. Edited by Johann von Cube. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 27.4 x 18.5 cm. Text in two columns, each measuring approximately 20.5 x 6.2 cm. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts, mainly depicting plants, but also some animals and apparatus, etc. Signatures: pi⁴ a-v⁸ w⁸ x-z⁸ A-D⁸ E⁶ F⁸ G-H⁶ I⁸ (I8 blank). Huntington Library copy is hand colored. Imperfect: leaves pi1, pi4, a1 and a3 lacking. Leaves e2 and e3 missing lower right corner, with slight loss of text. Binding: contemporary German blindstamped calfskin over wooden boards; remnants of two clasps. Rebacked.
Type
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Date
[13 May 1499]
Call number
103539
Provenance
Purchased from Vollbehr, March 23, 1925. Contemporary ms. annotations in the margins, on leaf I8r and under most of the illustrations. Inscription on leaf pi2r: Bibliothecae Pragenis[?] Scholar ...[?] 1778.
Dimensions
29 cm (Folio)
Associated people
Cuba, Johannes von, (active 1484-1503,)
Schönsperger, Johann, (-1520?,)
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