214
Sept. 85
Dr. Eichengerger
Bien wil am See
SF 100 = $39
Gart der Gesundheit.
[Strassburg: Johann (Reinhard) Gruninger, about 1485/86. f.*
Ref: Goff G-99 C 3178 BMC I 103 Klebs 507.3 B. 25
Cop M Mu (P)L.
348 woodcuts (a few repeats) last 11 leaves - index.
Hortus Sanitatis (a German translation) undated [c 1485]
224 leaves, the last blank. 2 col. 3b: 431. - headline
202(217)x137mm Types 180, headings; 93 text.
Spaces left for capitals. The headlines give the chapt.
number. with woodcuts (colored) - (270x189mm)
93 - semi cursive text type. Used in German Bible 1485.
- Almost indistinguishable from Ludwig von Renchen
See #193 (Cologne) 93A.
180 large round type for headings. Used until 1492.
Several forms of C, E, G, L, N, R, T, + c.
* Goff G. 108 [Strassburg: Johann (Reinhard) Gruninger, n.d.) f0
- Ref: HC 8946 Klebs 507.9 (1489). Hunt 301.
Cop: HEHL
Capi. ccxij wrongly numbered Lactus lattich.
Capi. ccxxiiij Liquiricis suszholtz.
lactuca is derived from the Latin lacta meaning "milk", as is
the Old French laitues from which lettuce stems.
Licorice - Wild Galium, lanceotalum (the Latin specific name
is descriptive of the lance-shaped leaves) The common
name is traced through several languages: the Latin
liquintia which was corupted from the Greek glykouhiza,
meaning "sweet root".
Licorice was known to the ancient Egyptians + the Chinese, as
well as to the ancient Greeks. Dioscorides reccommended the juice
in cases of hoaruness + heartburn, + in the form of an ointment
or pomatum for the dressing of wounds. Chauncer gives it
particular mention: 'Then springen herbes grete + smele,/
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