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Hust #59 Mattioli, Pier Andrea
Il Dioscoride Co I Suoi Discorsi [Lib I-V]
Venazia: V. Valgrisi 1548 4 1 leaf 9 1/8 x 6 3/8
3rd Italian ed. - 1st 1544,
#91 New Kreuterbuch, [inserted] The German version of the botanical parts of Matthioli's Commentaries on Dioscorides. [end inserted] Praha: G Malantrich, suf sein and V.
Valgriura zn Venedig Uncosten 1563. folio
leaf 14 3/8 x 9 3/9 810 Large woodcuts.
1st ed in German; first appearance of the fine series of large
woodcuts made by Giorgio Liberdi + Wolfgang Meyerpeck.
Except for "Eruca sylvestris" these illustrations were not
used in the 1st ed. in Czech called Herbarz which had been
published in Praha the year before in 1562. The text
is a translation of the botanical portion of Mattioli's Commentarii
without the text of Dioskorides. The woodcuts are an
important advance ove the farily mediocre ones used in
Mattioli's earlier works.
#94 Brunet III. 1538 R. Durling #3012 Commentarii in Sex Libros Dioscordis de Medica
Materia.
Venezia: Ex Officina Valgrisiana, 1565. folio.
leaf 13 3/4 x 8 2/8. [170], 1459, [13] p. illust, port. 38cm.
1st enlarged edition. The first ed. was published in Italian
in 1544 + the 1st in Latin in 1554*, but the 1565 ed. is
the 1st augmented by Mattioli's fuller notes + has always
been the most valued for its completeness. The large
woodcuts by G. Liberale + W. Mayenpeck are the
same as those in the New Krueterbuch of 1563. (#91)
-* folio de 24 ff. m. ch. 707 pp. Unlike the Italian versions this
Latin ed. - enriched by sysnonms in various languages, provided with
a special commentary, + accompanied by numerous illust. valuable
for the readers' identification of Dioscorides simples -
rendered the work accessible to scholars throughout Europe.