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Eyn schone Arstedyge boeck van allerleye ghebreck vnnde kranckheyden der mynschen

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Description: For a note on the contents of this book, see BM 15th cent. where it is treated as a Low-Saxonn version of the Herbarius. Madsen lists as Promptuarium medicinae. Title page has a woodcut illustration of doctors attending a patient. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 28.4 x 20.5 cm. Text in two columns. Spaces left for initials. Signatures: [*⁸ a-b¹⁰ c-n⁸ o-p⁶]. Imperfect: leaf [*]1 (the title page) lacking. Initials in red or blue; rubrication in red. Binding: contemporary German blindstamped calf over wooden boards; remnants of two clasps.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: [31 July 1483]
Call number: 90921
Creator: Ortolf(Opens in new tab)
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Aurelii Cornelii Celsi Medicinae liber primus incipit

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Royal quarto, with paper measuring 28.2 x 20.2 cm. Text in one column. Capital spaces with guide letters. Signatures: a-i⁸ K⁸ l-s⁸ [t]⁸ (a1, t8 blank). Imperfect: initial blank leaf (leaf a1) lacking. First initial decorated in red, blue, and green inks along with gold leaf; subsequent initials in red and blue. Rubrication in red and blue. Binding: contemporary Italian blindstamped calf over wooden boards; remnants of leather clasps. In box.

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Es spricht der Meÿster Almanasor. : Das man sulle in dem Genner gü̈ten weÿn nüchtern trincken

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Almanac in German with astrological notes and illustrations. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 20.2 x 15.5 cm. Signatures: [a-h⁸ i⁶ (a1, i6 blank)]. Illustrations hand colored. Running titles, rubrication and numbering of the days of the month in red. Leaf a1 damaged and mounted on free endpaper at beginning. Binding: contemporary German blindstamped calfskin over boards; remnants of metal clasp. Rebacked.

90912

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

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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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Incipit opus Alberti Magni. De mirabilibus mundi lege foeliciter

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Often wrongly attributed to Albertus, Magnus. Colophon title: Albertus. Magnus. De. secretis naturae explicit Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 21.3 x 14.4 cm. Text in one column, measuring approximately 13.5 x 8.3 cm. Signatures: [a-c¹⁰]. Initials and rubrication in blue and red. Binding: contemporary blind-stamped Italian goatskin over beech boards; remnants of clasp.

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Herbarius

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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.

103539

Albertus Magnus De secretis mulierum et virorum

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Signatures: a-e⁸ f-g⁶. Final page blank. Initials and rubrication in red. Bound with: Scot, Michael. Phisonomia Michaelis Scoti. [Passau: Johan Petri, approximately 1487-1488].

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Eyn schone Arstedyge boeck van allerleye ghebreck vnnde kranckheyden der mynschen

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