Herbarius latinus
(with German synonyms).
Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, [14]84.
4to. [14 2-218 2210]. [174] leaves (20/8 blank).
Woodcuts; woodcut printer's device in red.
ISTC ih00062000; GW 12268; Goff H62 A(i); BMC I 39 (IA. 288); Bod-inc H-037; CIBN H-32; BSB-Ink H-98.
| GIP number: | H6 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bw.3.5 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variants: | With title, date and woodcut printer’s device printed in red on 1/1r i.e. corresponding to ISTC’s state A. Woodcuts 42 and 48 correctly numbered and woodcut 75 misnumbered “73” i.e. corresponding to ISTC’s state Bi. |
| Provenance: | Joannes Grandus (17th century), of Avignon: inscription with motto on 1/1r “Sp[iritu]s vbj vult Spirat Jo Grandus avenio”. Robert Gray (fl. 1664-1722), Doctor of Medicine, Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London 1664, Fellow 1687: inscription on 1/1r “Ex libris Ro: Gray collegii medicorum Londinensium socii Anno 1702” and with his annotations on verso of front free endpaper and on 1/1v. John Ratcliffe (1707-1776), book collector: sale (1776), lot 1570 ‘Herbarius maguntie impressis, cum fig. Colorat.’ William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased for £0.12.0 at the Ratcliffe sale; see the annotated British Library copy of the sale catalogue. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate and book label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “X.7.21”. |
| Binding: | 17th-century parchment with fore-edge cover extensions; spine title written in ink (heavily worn and largely illegible). Size: 214 x 151 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 209 x 148 mm. |
| Annotations: | Frequent marginal annotations in 16th and 17th-century hands; frequent underlining and nota marks; occasional manicules; 16th/17th-century index to the numbered woodcuts written on the blank page 1/4v and continuing onto the printed page 2/1r (f. 5r) - this index pre-dates the loss of the leaves detailed in Imperfections below; number “854” in ink in a 17th/18th-century hand on front free endpaper, repeated in top right-hand corner of 1/1r; large letter “C” perhaps in the same hand on front free endpaper; faint pencil number “515” (18th century?) on 1/1r. |
| Decoration: | Woodcuts coloured by hand. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting quires 4, 5, 20 (i.e. ff. 21-36 and 149-156 containing woodcuts 17-32 and woodcuts 145-150); also wanting 22/8 and 22/9 (ff. 172 and 173); 22/10 (f. 174) mutilated. |
