Plates 1-2: Hortus Sanitatus (Garden of Health). Mainz: Jacob Meydenbach , 1491
File — Box: 1
Dates
- Creation: 1491
Creator
- From the Collection: Aldrovandi, Ulisse, 1522-1605? (Person)
- From the Collection: Buc'hoz, Pierre-Joseph, 1731-1807 (Person)
- From the Collection: Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788 (Person)
- From the Collection: Collaert, Adriaen, -1618 (Person)
- From the Collection: De Kay, James E. (James Ellsworth), 1792-1851 (Person)
- From the Collection: Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784 (Person)
- From the Collection: Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565 (Person)
- From the Collection: Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823 (Person)
- From the Collection: Knorr, Georg Wolfgang, 1705-1761 (Person)
- From the Collection: Meyer, Johann Daniel, 1713- (Person)
- From the Collection: Perrault, Claude, 1613-1688 (Person)
- From the Collection: Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob, 1672-1733 (Person)
Historical Note
Hortus Sanitatus (Garden of Health). Mainz: Jacob Meydenbach, 1491. This two-volume work contains 1,066 chapters, and is divided into sections dealing with herbs, land animals, fishes, stones and minerals; a therapeutical index of diseases appears at the end. Nothing is known about the author, although the preface states that a learned physician was commissioned to compile the work from Avicena, Hippocrates, Galen, and other ancient authors. The work contains more than one thousand woodcuts, which were copied from manuscripts of works by the authors cited above.
Extent
From the Collection: 4 Linear Feet (2 flat boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Butler University Special Collections and University Archives Repository
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4600 Sunset Avenue
Irwin Library 345
Indianapolis Indiana 46208 United States
specialcollections@butler.edu