farfel_n06_045_424

424
Heritage
Los Angeles
Nov. '94
$150

Hortius Sanitatis.
Venice: Bernardino Benalio + Giovanni (Johannes) de Tridino
alias Tacuind, August 11, 1511. Median folio
Ref: Ahaims H-1016 Essling pt. 2 vol. I, no. 1723
Harvard / Mortimer, Italian 238. Hunt. I, 12 Nissen 2368
Durling 2468. Proctor #12365, Types: 88, 138, 175, 420.
Copy: MMu (P)L Becher, 49. Choulant Ino. 18, p 64
N.Y. Botanical Garden; Harvard; Missouri Bot. Garden (St. Louis)
368 leaves, with signatures (Arnoid). Types: 420 G (1st 2 lines of
title) 18: 180 G (title + headings); 88 G (text resembling Rotunda with square U
De Gregoriis 32: 85 G cf. BMC V p:369, Bunalius 13: 85 G^A)
Double column. 531. + headlines. marginal letters
keyed to indices. 1062 small text woodcuts (including
repeats) Spaces for initials with guide letters. 3 full page woodcuts

5th ed. fo the Latin text 1st Italian ed. of the Latin Hortis, with the pseudo-Galenic "De
facile acquisibilibus" (book 2 of De remedis facile
parabilibus). The small woodcuts are reversed copies
of those of Pruss's Strassburg editions.
Translated by Nicolaus de Regis.

Mortimer #238 The "Tractatus de herbis" contains 528 cuts including repetitions
There are 534 smaller cuts including repetitions in teh 2nd
part-animals, birds, fishes + precious stones. The blocks
in both parts measure 57x57 to 108x63mm. + are
reverse copies fo J. Pruss ca. 1497.
This is apparently the only ed. which Benalio + Tacuino
collaborated. (31x21cm).