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Page 133 · 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 133
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- 21 January 1901
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Egonolf printed in 1551 the first volume of Lonicer's "Historiae naturalis apud novum"; it was the second volume of this work which brought its author four years later the present of an taler from the Frankfurt council, which we have already mentioned. When Resselin, whose herbal has meanwhile appeared in seven editions, died in 1554, the vacant post of the Frankfurt physician was offered to Lonicer, and he got married to one of Egonolf's daughters, named Magdalene. He now turns his attention to the herbal written by his predecessor, which he edited in its old version (four times between 1557 and 1577) as well as in a completely revised version, which bore his own name. It was this latter work, which gave him some kind of immortality during two centuries. Having been published in seven of eight editions during his lifetime (he died in 1586), it was printed another twelve times up to 1703. It is particularly interesting, that even in the last editions there still are many plant illustrations taken over from the first edition (the woodblocks were taken from Frankfurt to Ulm, from there to Nuremberg and then to Augsburg), also some animal-pictures, which Jost Amman had drawn for the "Tierbuch" (Animal Book), which was published by Feyrbond in 1589.
Egonolf, who had died in 1555, did not see Lonicer's herbal published; publication only was completed in 1557 by "Egonolf's Erben" (Egonolf's heirs), amongst whom Lonicer, being his son-in-law, was himself. For the illustrations use was mainly made of Resselin's herbal pictures and of the rather inferior Marburg Dioscorides pictures. The latter however began to fade out already in the next edition and none of them were kept until the later centuries. Apart from these there are also some woodcuts, for which Rock's herbal must have been the model. Of course Rendel's drawings were not simply copies, but his method was imitated and living beings were used to animate the drawings. So for instance we see beside the apple-tree Adam
