Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Medical (pre-1701) Printed Collection, 1196
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- Manchester Digital Collections
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- The John Rylands Library
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- 1196
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- 1535
- 1536
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- German
- Title
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- Herbarum Imagines Vivae : der kreuter lebliche Contrafaytung.
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- Christian Egenolff (1502-1555)
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- Printer
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- Egenolff, Christian, 1502-1555
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- Richard Copley Christie (1830-1901)
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- Donor
- Original form
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- Christie, Richard Copley, 1830-1901
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- Thomas Windsor (1831-1910)
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- Inscriber
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- Windsor, Thomas, 1831-1910
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- Preferred form
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- Manchester Medical Society
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- Former owner
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- Manchester Medical Society
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- Description
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- Extent:
2 parts in 1 (40, [4]; 20, [2] leaves), ill., 20 cm (4º) Leaf height: 200 mm, width: 150 mm.
Binding:
Contemporary[?] goatskin over boards with blind-tooled panel design.
Decoration:
Woodcuts are hand-coloured.
Subject(s):
Herbals.; Botanical literature -- 16th century.; Botany -- Pre-Linnean works.; Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Format:
Codex
Provenance:
MS inscriptions on front paste-down relating to R.H, dated 1559; MS inscription on title-page: Wm: Sadler: 1573: July 15; MS inscriptions on front fly-leaf recto: [1] Will. Briggs his book / Anno 1661 / Octob: 28, [2] Richard Briggs his / Booke Anno Dom / 1667, [3] Richard Briggs his / Booke Anno Dom / July ye 27th; MS inscription on interleaved recto after sig. H³: John Briggs; MS inscription on interleaved recto after sig. E⁴: pauper ubique jacet / Johannes Jacob; MS inscriptions on front fly-leaf recto: [1] T. [Thomas?] Kerrich / M.M.C. / 1778, [2] NB. I had this book from Canterbury [TK monogram]; MS inscription on title-page: T.W. [Thomas Windsor] / Feb. 25, 1879; presentation label on front paste-down: This volume was given to the Manchester Medical Society by R.C. Christie Esq. of Manchester 4th March 1879; inkstamp throughout: Manchester Medical Society.
Additions:
MS annotations throughout; interleaved with MS notes in several hands in Latin, German and English
Note(s):
Signatures: A-L⁴; a-e⁴, f².
Publication dates from colophon: Part one, 1535, Part two, 1536.
For Fuchs's attack on Egenolph see Fuchs' Historia Stirpium and Fuchs: Primi de stirpium historia commentariorum tomi vivae imagines, 1545, Intro. p. [iv-v]
Separate title-page for second item reads: Imaginum Herbarum, Pars II. Andertheyl der kreuter Conterfeytungenn. Francoforti, Christianus Egenolphus Hadamarius excudebat.
Date of first part from colophon. Volume dated on spine 1535-36. Haller. Bibl. Botan. 1, p. 275 gives Pars II as pub. 1535.
Publication:
Francoforti : Christianus Egenolphus excudebat, 1535-1536.
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- Frankfurt am Main (Hesse, Germany)
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