Bod-Inc: G-050
Gart der Gesundheit
Analysis of Content
[a2r] [Breydenbach, Bernhard Von, and Schoeffer, Peter: Prefatory letter.] Incipit: ‘[O]fft vnd vil habe ich by mir selbst betracht die wundersam Werck des Schepfers . . .’
[a4r] Cube, Johannes von: [Gart der Gesundheit.] Commissioned by Bernhard von Breydenbach. Incipit: ‘Arthemisia heysset Byfusm. Arthemisia mater herbarum ariuosa ampolata . . .’ See Ellen Shaffer, The Garden of Health: An Account of Two Herbals ([San Francisco], 1957), esp. 7-12. Johann von Cube, physician of Frankfurt-am-Main, is named on [k4v]; see Julius Schuster, ‘Secreta Salernitana und Gart der Gesundheit: eine Studie zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und Medizin des Mittelalters', Mittelalterliche Handschriften: paläographische, kunsthistorische, literarische und bibliotheksgeschichtliche Untersuchungen: Festgabe zum 60. Geburtstage von Hermann Degering (Leipzig, 1926), 203-35, at 221-3, Shaffer 7-8; VL II 1072-92, at 1076-7.
[V3r] ‘Eyn Register zu finden kruter die da Laxieren . . .’ Incipit: ‘Zu dem ersten von dem Stucken die do Laxieren den Menschen. Aloe . . .’ Remedies grouped by action and derivation, based not on the Gart der Gesundheit but rather on Schoeffer's ‘Herbarius Moguntinus' of 1484.
[X1v] ‘Das vierde Deyl diss Buchs vnd saget vns von allen Farten dess Harns.’ [Chapter on urinoscopy.] Incipit: ‘In den vorgenanten Capiteln fyndest du beschrieben wie man raidt . . .’
[X4v] [Note on the following list of illnesses.] Incipit: ‘Hie nach volget das funffte Deyl vnd das lest diß Büchs . . .’
[Y1r] ‘Ein Register behende zu finden von allen Kranqkeyten der Menschen . . .’ Incipit: ‘Zu dem ersten furheubt methun von hitz Kommende . . .’ Remedies under names of diseases or symptoms.
[Z5r] [Alphabetical list of Latin chapter headings.]
Imprint
Imprint: Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 28 Mar. 1485. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a–z A–T8 V X4 Y Z8].
Remarks: Collation differs from the one indicated in BMC.
Illustrations: 379 woodcuts: see Schramm XIV p. 9 and pls 189-569.
References
ISTC: ig00097000
Hain: H *8948;
Goff: Goff G‑97;
BMC: BMC I 35;
Proctor: Pr 123;
Others: Klebs, ‘Herbals', 42, no. 1; Schramm XIV p. 9; Schreiber V 4332; not in Sheppard. Facsimile: Munich, 1924.
LCN: 14512399
Copies
Copy number: G-050(1)
Wanting [a1-4], [q6-7], [t4], [x2-3], [x5], [y2-3], [y6], [z1-2], [C7-8], [F8], [L2.7], [P8], gatherings [Q–S], [T2-8], [V1-2], gathering [X], and the blank leaf [Z8].
Leaves [a5 -b1] and [y8] are supplied from another copy. Many leaves damaged and repaired.
Binding: Nineteenth-century German half calf; marbled paper boards. Spine badly damaged; both boards detached.
Size: 279 × 202 × 54 mm.
Size of leaf: 269 × 195 mm.
Early marginal annotations, some in German.
Woodcuts coloured in green, blue, yellow, and red.
Provenance: Cancelled ownership inscription on [a5r]. Johannes Seiffert (sixteenth/seventeenth century); inscription on [a5r]: ‘Joannes Seiffert Dr [ ]'. Heidenfeld, near Schweinfurt, Bavaria, Augustinian Canons; inscription on [a5r]: ‘Canoniæ Heydenfeld anno 90'. These two inscriptions relate only to the leaves [a5 -b1]. C[arl] Ph[ilipp] F[riedrich] von Martius (1794-1868); book-plate. Sold for £240 at Sotheby's in 1955. Roy Vernon Sowers (1897-1970). Bequeathed in 1970; book-plate.
SHELFMARK: Inc. d. G1.1485.1.
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