Ortus sanitatis
Contributors: F. W., former owner; Meydenbach, Jacob, active 1491-1495; Ashburner, Walter, 1864-1936, former owner; Nottelius, Nicolaus, active 1574, former owner; Erberg, former owner; Barnard, P. Mordaunt (Percy Mordaunt), 1868-1941, bookseller; Friedrich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg, 1620-1688, former owner; Art ancien S.A.; Königliche Bibliothek zu Berlin; H. W. Taeuber Antiquariat; Meydenbach, Jakob, active 15th century, printer
Series: Open Collections Program at Harvard University
Publisher: Jacob Meydenbach
Published: 1491
Place of publication: Mainz
Language: lat
Number of pages: 908
Subjects: Natural history; Pre-Linnean works; Botany; Materia medica; Early works to 1800; Medieval Medicine; Urine; Medical Botany; Herbs; Therapeutic use; Herbals; Animals; Materia Medica; Minerals; Phytotherapy; Medicinal Plants
Work titles: Hortus sanitatis
Notes: Imprint from colophon.

Colophon (p. [906]): ... Quem quidem librum omni dilige[n]tia collectum [et] elaboratum, intelligibili caractere proprijs impensis Iacobus meydenbach ciuis Moguntinus lucule[n]tissime impressit ... Impressum est autem hoc ip[su]m in inclita ciuitate Moguntina ... in qua nobilissima ciuitate [et] ars ac scientia hec subtilissima caracterisandi seu imprimendi fuit primu[m] inuenta ... Anno salutis Millesimo Quadringentesimo Nonagesimo primo, Die vero Iouis vicesima tercia mensis Iunij.

Signatures: A-C⁸ D-Z⁶·⁸ a-m⁶·⁸ n-y⁸·⁶ z⁸ [et]⁸ aa-hh⁶·⁸ ii-ll⁶ chi⁸ 2chi⁶ ²A⁸ ²B-D⁶ ²E⁶(-²E6, blank); m1-4 signed 'Mj', 'Mij', 'Miij', 'Miiij', v2-3 signed 'vj', 'vij', 2chi1-3 signed 'v', 'vj', vij'.

The headline on leaf A2r varies: some copies read "pñtis", others read "pũtis".

Xylographic title-page; 7 full-page woodcuts (1 preceding each section); nearly 1,100 woodcut ill. in text.

De animalibus, De avibus, and De urinis have divisional title-pages.

Text in double columns.

Initial spaces, some with guide-letters.

Includes index.

Hain-Copinger, 8944*.

Goff, H-486.

Proctor, 160.

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel, 4247.

BM 15th cent., I, 44 (IB.343).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ih00486000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 34-40.

BM 15th cent., I, p. 44 (IB. 343)

BN cat. des incun. H-294

Goff H486

Hunt botanical cat., 8

Klebs 509.1

Klebs, A.C. Early herbals, 45

NLM Incun. 244

Schramm, A. Bilderschmuck, XV, 26-1098

Wellcome cat. of printed books, I, 3326
Table of contents: title: Tractatus De herbis (A2v-m8r); title: Tractatus De animalibus vitam in terris ducentium (n1r-t8v); title: Tractatus De auibus (v1r-[et]8r); title: Tractatus De piscibus ([et]8v-ee2r); title: Tractatus De lapidibus (ee2v-ll6v); title: Tractatus De vrinis (chi1r-2chi6r); title: Tabula (²A1r-D5r); title: Tabula generalis (²D5v-E5v).