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Page 6 · DO #1810 · 142_Payne_Schreiber_Vol.1_r
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Payne, Joseph Frank (1840–1910 and Schreiber) manuscript of speech "On the 'Herbarius' and 'Hortus Sanitatis'" (Payne) and "The Herbals of the XVth and XVIth Centuries"
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Manuscript, 1901, 21 January 1901
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DO #1810,
page 6
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- 21 January 1901
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botanical figures, printed in Italy, which has
no connection with the German "Herbals", but
which it may be desirable to speak of first, as
its history may perhaps throw some light upon
that of the German books. I refer to the
"Herbarium" of Apuleius Platonicus, printed at
Rome, probably soon after 1480, by Philippus de
Lignamine. It is a small quarto beginning with
a dedication, in some copies to Cardinal F.(or D.F)
de Gonzaga, in others to Cardinal Juliano de Ruvere.
This, with a Table of Chapters, occupies four
leaves (in my copy; perhaps there should be six).
On the leaf is the title, in this form:-
"Incipit || Herbarium || Apuleii Plato || nici ad Mar||
cum Agrip || pam"; these words being surrounded
by a garland of classical design. Then follow
131 chapters each with a figure of a herb;
occupying 101 leaves, ending with a register
of the quires and a blank leaf, In all 107
(?or 108) leaves (see Hain, 1322). [ Choulant's
other bibliographical works, viz.: his"Geschichte
und bibliographie der anatomischen Abbildung,"1852;
"Handbuch der Bucherkunde fur die altere Medicin"
(2nd ed., 1841); and "Bibliotheca Medico-historica",
1842, are still the standard works in their
respective subjects, but do not aim at the minute
