farfel_n03_121_191

191
Feb. 85
Dr Eichenberger
Beinwil am See
SF 75=$26

14th C treatise dealing with men + women, with the sky + its
signs, with beasts, trees, vegatables, stones + famous
wells.

Conrad (Aleman) von Megenberg (1309-74)
Buch der Natur. (27.5 cm) Klebs 300.5
Augsburg: Anton Sorg, 24 July 1482. 5th ed. f0 Chancery
4. von dem strauch (ostrich)
Ref: Goff C-845 Sehn 3782 H 4945 BMC II 349.
Munchen HSB Augsburg Cop: U.C.S.F.(-) 2. (nightingale) - von der nachtgall. Part 4 Binds
1. von dem spac3en (sparrow) 3. (parrot) - von dem sittich,
240 leaves, the 1st + last blank. a-f10 g-i8 k-z A10 B6
5a: 35 lines, 210x125mm. 33+34 lines to the page also
found. (with 12 full pages woodcuts, ornamental initiala)
types: 140, heading on 2a - title type used continuously from 1481
Indistinguishable from Schonsperger's [P.3]
Capitals (1b) with woodcuts.
112(120) text. large German text type introduced in 1478. 2 forms of
A, ), E are common, a 3rd form of E is rare. A change
in the body of the ype increasing the measurement to 120 had
been made by July 1482.
-only a single 1 of the 11 woodcuts, the capital initial for the chapter on rocks is origional (others from Bamler)
Goff C846 Augsburg: J. Schonsperger. 1499. f0, 39 lines. 207x131mm. 172 leaves.
Large title woodcuts + 13 full page woodcuts.

In 1475 there was published by Hans Bamler (Goff C-842) in Augsburg the
so called Puch der Natur of Konrad von Meganberg. Though not
strictly a herbal, it contains a short section on plants
illustrated with the 1st two botanical woodcuts ever made, + has
a further claim to fame as the earliest work of its kind in
the vernacular. A second ed. appeared in 1482 78 in which the
designs have been reversed. Though the plants in the Puch der
Natur are not very convincing botanically, they are far more
naturalistic than those figured in what is generally considered to
be the 1st herbal proper with printed illustrations: the Herbal
of Apuleius Platonicus (Rome 1481? not later than 1483)
J. Phillippus de Lignamine, its editor + printer, was physician
wo Pope Sixtus IV.
Goff C- Oct. 1475 ed - the 1st printed book to contain figures of animals
842 The 1st notable scientific book in German.