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Page 86 · 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 86
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- 21 January 1901
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Passau one. As far as I know, there are 5 of the first, 3 of the second,
and only 2 of the third edition still existing. (10)
In Italy some more reprints were published, but not with the title
"Herbarius". They began with the line "Arnoldi de novis villa
Avicenna" and ended with the words:"Finit liber qui
vocatur Herbolarium de virtutibus herba-
rum". The edition which was printed in 1491 at Vicenza by Leonardus Achae-
tes de Basilea and Guil.de Papis seems to be the oldest one. An other one,
published in 1509 by Joannes and Bernardinus Rubeus at Venice, differs only
slightly from the German editions in text and general arrangement, whilst
the illustrations, though approximately of the same size as the Mainz ones,
have been drawn entirely anew. In certain cases the German original can
still be traced, generally however, the figures seem to have been drawn
from nature with considerable skill; the technique of the woodcuts however
can hardly be called particularly praiseworthy.
A similar work, but at the same time distinctly different from our
"Herbarius", was published in 1493 by J.Ph.de Lignamine in Rose, under the
title of "Herbarium Apulei Platonici". Its size is
more or less the same as that of the "Herbarius" and it spends even more
care and trouble on the curative powers of the plants. It contains 131
woodcuts, measuring 100 x 70 mm, shockingly crude, remarkable by the fact,
that on the roots of the plants very often black, snake-like winding worms
have been pictured.
