Liber de arte distillandi, de simplicibus : das buch der rechten kunst zu distilieren die eintzige[n] ding, von Hieronymo Brunschwygk, bürtig vnd wund artzot der keiserliche[n] frye[n] statt strassburg

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The instance Liber de arte distillandi, de simplicibus : das buch der rechten kunst zu distilieren die eintzige[n] ding, von Hieronymo Brunschwygk, bürtig vnd wund artzot der keiserliche[n] frye[n] statt strassburg represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

Label

Liber de arte distillandi, de simplicibus : das buch der rechten kunst zu distilieren die eintzige[n] ding, von Hieronymo Brunschwygk, bürtig vnd wund artzot der keiserliche[n] frye[n] statt strassburg

Title remainder

das buch der rechten kunst zu distilieren die eintzige[n] ding

Statement of responsibility

von Hieronymo Brunschwygk, bürtig vnd wund artzot der keiserliche[n] frye[n] statt strassburg

Instantiates

• Liber de arte distillandi, de simplicibus : das buch der rechten kunst zu distilieren die eintzige[n] ding

Publication

• Strasbourg, Johann Reinhard Grüninger, 8 May 1500

Note

• Imprint from Goff
• Colophon reads: ... Hie mit volendt das bůch genant lyber de arte dystillandi de simplicibus vo[n] Jeronimo Brunschwyg wundt artzot der keiserlichen fryen statt Strassburg vnd getruckt durch den wol geachte[n] Johannem grüeninger zu Strassburg in dem achte[n] tag des meyen. Als man zalt von der geburt Christi fünfftzehenhundert
• Signatures: A-D€ E-Z¡ 2A-2O¡
• Chancery folio, text printed in 2 columns; 47 lines and headline; col. width: 71 mm.; area of text: 230 (241) x 152 mm. With some printed initials, and many initial spaces, most with guide-letters; without catchwords
• Includes 279 woodcut illustrations showing apparati for distillation and plants.--Cf. Schramm

Control code

000146174

Dimensions

32 cm. (fol.).

Extent

[18], ccix, [3] leaves

Lccn

49043561

Note

• Not rubricated.
• With some contemporary ms. annotations in German throughout the text, and extensive notes beginning at the end of the colophon and ending on the verso of the last leaf.
• Ownership inscription on title leaf: "Dis [buch?] hoert zu [Kont?] Maximinyn und Pal my nur Tochter Katherinen gelobent werden." A ms. letter to Dr. W.W. Keen from Carroll Smyth, dated 14 Jan. 1908, from Rome, concerning the translation of the inscription on the title leaf is pasted on the end flyleaf.
• Presented to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by Mr. George A. Armour, prior to 20 April 1908.
• Bound in brown calf over wooden boards, with a gold-stamped Morocco spine label; rebacked; with six vellum tabs stained red on fore-edge; indentations remain on fore-edges of covers, where metal clasps once were.
• Leaf size: 306 x 208 mm.
• Photostat NOT available.

Other physical details

ill. (woodcuts)

Record ID

u136022

System control number

• (Sirsi) 146174
• 148977
• (OCoLC)ocm03643936