Bod-Inc: H-220
Hortus Sanitatis
Analysis of Content
Subject: medicine
A1r [Title-page for the book]. ‘Ortus sanitatis.’
A2r Hortus sanitatis. ‘Incipit prohemium presentis operis.’ Incipit: ‘[O]mnipotentis eternique dei tocius nature creatoris opera mirabilia admirandaque ...’ A2v Explicit: ‘... Cum thesaurorum hunc hactenus absconditum mihi dederis in lucem producere. Tibi honorem et gloriam in secula sempiterna. Amen.’
A2v Hortus sanitatis: De herbis. Incipit: ‘Capitulum primum. | [A]arona pandecta ca. 1. Aaron Grece, Arabice, Siricantica, Latine vero barba Aaron ... et contra dolorem pectoris valet ...’ m8r Explicit: ‘... et contra dolorem pectoris valet. | Hec de herbis et arboribus et que ex his ad ususm medicine concurruntur sufficiant.’ See VL IV 154-63. The entry for each herb takes the following form: a woodcut, a discussion of the forms of its name, etc., and ‘Operationes', a discussion of its properties.
n1r [Title-page for De animalibus]. ‘Tractatus de animalibus vitam in terris ducentium.’
n2r Hortus sanitatis: De animalibus. ‘Prologus.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam in prioribus diuino nobis assistente auxilio ...’ Explicit: ‘... Primo loco de hominis natura eius complexione acque virtute dicamus.’
n2r Hortus sanitatis: De animalibus. Incipit: ‘Ca. primum. | [A] homo Isidorus formavit ergo (sicut scriptum est) dominus hominem in agro Damasceno ...’ t8v Explicit: ‘... et intrat in sepulchra et cadavera comedit mortuorum. | Hec igitur de natura animalium quadrupedum et aliis in terris morantium sufficiant, quia s[i] qua alia sunt facile ex antedictis agnosci possunt.’ [The entry for each animal takes the following form: a woodcut, a discussion of the forms of its name, etc., and, in some cases, ‘Operationes', a discussion of its attributes].
v1r [Title-page for De avibus]. ‘Tractatus de avibus.’
v2r Hortus sanitatis: De avibus. ‘Prologus.’ Incipit: ‘[E]xpeditoque tractatu secundo de proprietatibus videlicet animalium ...’ Explicit: ‘... et volatilibus iuxta ordinem alphabeti. Primo de aquila inicium sumamus.’
v2r Hortus sanitatis: De avibus. Incipit: ‘Ca. primum. | [A]quila. Ysidorus. Aquila ab acumine oculorum vocata ...’ [et]8r Explicit: ‘... Hoc idem dicit Albertus in libro suo de Naturis animalium in tractatu de Avibus. | Hec igitur dicta de avibus sufficiant.’ [The entry for each bird takes the following form: a woodcut, a discussion of the forms of its name, etc., and, in some cases, ‘Operationes', a discussion of its attributes].
aa1r Hortus sanitatis: De piscibus. ‘Prohemium.’ Incipit: ‘[I]am in precedenti tractatu locuti sumus de volatilibus qui in genere animalium videntur ...’ Explicit: ‘... et capitula sicut in precedentibus procedemus.’
aa1r Hortus sanitatis: De piscibus. Incipit: ‘Ca. primum. | [A]bremon, Achandes, Accipender, Albirez et Alphoram ...’ ee2r Explicit: ‘... in toto corpore nulli alii simile nisi cete. | Hec de piscibus ac monstruorum aquatilium et naturis breviando transcurrim.’ [The entry for each fish takes the following form: a woodcut, a discussion of the forms of its name, etc., and, in some cases, ‘Operationes', a discussion of its attributes].
ee3r Hortus sanitatis: De lapidibus. ‘Prohemium.’ Incipit: ‘[S]eneca in naturalibus questionibus libro septimo dicit: Sicut in nobis non tantum est sanguis’ Explicit: ‘... et modum seu ordinem alphabeti sicut in precedenti observando. Primo de lapidibus dicemus.’
ee3r Hortus sanitatis: De lapidibus. Incipit: ‘Ca. Primum. | [A]damas latine, arabice Hager subedhig. ...’ ll6v Explicit: ‘... Hoc enim ait Enax in lapidario suo. | Et hec de lapidibus preciosis ad presens dicta sufficiant.’ The entry for each stone takes the following form: a woodcut, a discussion of the forms of its name, etc., and, in most cases, ‘Operationes', a discussion of its properties.
2A1r [Tables of contents by section]. ‘Tabula super tractatus de herbis.’
2D5v [Alphabetical index by section]. ‘Tabula generalis.’
2E5v [Valedictory note addressed to the reader]. Incipit: ‘A fine cum vniuersa pendere dicantur eo quod si finis bonus est totum laudabile quid est hoc . . .’ Explicit: ‘... Hoc modo lectitanti prodesse ac intuentem oblecare impressor ipse Iacobus voluit.’
2E5v Colophon: ‘Impressum est inquam sub archipresulatu reverendissimi ... Bertoldi archiepiscopi Moguntini ac principis electoris cuius felicissimo auspicio graditur, recipitur et auctorisatur. Anno salutis Millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimo primo, die vero Iovis, vicesima tercia mensis Iunii.’
Imprint
Imprint: Mainz Jacob Meydenbach 23 June 1491 Folio.
Secundo folio: A3r effundere aquam secundum elixationem, deinde in alteram
Collation
Collation:
A B8 C–Z a–l8.6 M n8 o–z6.8 [et]8 aa–ii8.6 kk ll6
Remarks: Collation differs from BSB‑Ink, which collates ‘ . . . C–Z a–z 8.6 . . .’ Spaces left blank for intials, without printed guide letters.
Illustrations: Woodcuts: see Schramm XV p. 7 and pls 26-1098.
References
ISTC: ih00486000
Hain: HC *8944;
Goff: Goff H‑486;
BMC: BMC I 44;
Proctor: Pr 160;
Others: BSB‑Ink H‑388; CIBN H‑294; Hillard 1048; Klebs, ‘Herbals', 49, no. 1; Oates 55; Rhodes 947; Sack, Freiburg, 1893-4; Schramm XV p. 7; Schreiber V 4247; Sheppard 102-3.
LCN: 12813356, 14463295, 14463344
Copies
Copy number: H-220(1)
Binding: Contemporary German (Kyriß workshops nos 39 and 40?) blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with the remains of two metal clasps on the lower cover. On both covers fillets form concentric frames. Inside the outer frame are a large palmette stamp and a large circular eagle stamp. Fillets form the inner rectangle which is divided by further triple fillets into triangular and lozenge-shaped compartments on the upper cover, and into triangular compartments on the lower cover, both covers decorated with a lozenge-shaped eagle stamp (Kyriß pl. 87, ‘Nachfolger', no. 1), a small lozenge-shaped lion stamp, and a coat of arms stamp (a lion rampant impaled with fusils in bend; Kyriß pl. 87, ‘Alberthus', no. 5). Rebacked.
Size: 313 × 220 × 96 mm.
Size of leaf: 300 × 204 mm.
Occasional early annotations in red, including extraction of key words and underlining in the text. More extensive early notes in the upper margins of the De lapidibus. On the recto of the front endleaf a proverb in a sixteenth-century hand, ‘Contra vim mortis non crescit herba in hortis.’
Two- to seven-line initials, some with extensions into the margins, and paragraph marks are supplied in red; capital strokes and underlining in red.
Provenance: Andreas Weyss (fl. 1557). Johannes Rottmayr (fl. 1557); inscriptions on front pastedown: ‘Sum Johannis Rottmayr Salisburgensis'; ‘Dono accepi hunc librum Heydlbergæ a magistro Andrea Weyss chirurgo et litothomo anno M.D.LVII'. Salzburg, Benedictines, S. Petrus, 1767; book-plate, with inscription: ‘Ex bibliotheca antiquo-nova monasterii ad sanctum Petrum Salisburgi O. S. Benedicti ab anno 1767 in alium ordinem redacta', with shelfmark ‘XXX.C.34'; also inscription on A2r: ‘Ex bibliotheca monasterii S. Petri Salisburgi'. Payne and Foss, A Catalogue of Books in Foreign Languages . . . (London, 1824), no. 3777; inscription on front pastedown: ‘M. Payne 1824 no. 3777'; priced in the catalogue at £5. 5. 0. Presumably purchased by Douce. Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 260.
Copy number: H-220(2)
Wanting leaf A1, in place of which is bound the title-page of Prüss's edition H 8941, also the blank leaf2 E6.
In the Tractatus de urinis gathering <v-vii> is bound at the end.
Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled diced russia; marbled pastedowns, and gilt-edged leaves.
Size: 289 × 205 × 65 mm.
Size of leaf: 278 × 182 mm.
Occasional early annotations, including the English names of the herbs.
Partial rubrication: two- to four-line initials, some with extensions into the margins, and paragraph marks are supplied in red; capital strokes and underlining in red; the initial on A2r has been removed.
Provenance: Oxford, Radcliffe Library; book-plate; acquired by 1835: see Radcliffe Catalogue (1835), p. 297. Transferred to the Bodleian by the Radcliffe Trustees between 1861 and 1893.
Former Radcliffe shelfmarks: G144.A.1; 86.A.1.
SHELFMARK: RR.x.272 [RSL].
Copy number: H-220(3)
Bound in a modern guard-book of fragments; see G‑338.
Leaves r3, r7, s3, t2, gg1, hh2, and ii3 only.
Not in Sheppard.
Size of fragments: 242 × 170 mm.
Some early notes, including English names for animals, also scribbles and pen-trials, and a drawing of an animal head on s3r.
Three-, seven- and eight-line initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red.
Provenance: Jacob Richards (fl. 1711) [perhaps leaf hh2 only]. Thomas Hearne (1678-1735); leaf hh2, perhaps others: inscription on hh2r: ‘Suum cuique Thomas Hearne. This old fragment was given me by Mr [deletion] Jacob Richards, cook of Edmund Hall June 22nd 1711'. Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); shelfmark. Presumably bequeathed in 1755.
SHELFMARK: 4o Rawl. 598(3).
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