Liber pestilentialis de venenis epidimie
Subtitle: Das Bůch der Vergift der Pestile[n]tz das da gena[n]t ist der gemein Sterbent der Trüsen Blatren
By: von Jeronimo bru[n]swig
Series: Open Collections Program at Harvard University
Publisher: Getruckt und volendt durch Meister Hansen Grüninger
Published: 1500
Place of publication: Strassburg
Language: ger
Subjects: Plague; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Büch der Vergift der Pestile[n]tz das da gena[n]t ist der gemein Sterbent der Trüsen Blatren; Bůch der vergift der pestilentz das da genant ist der gemein sterbent der Trüsen Blatren; Büch der Vergift der Pestile[n]tz das da gena[n]t ist der gemein Sterbent der Trüsen Blatren; Bůch der vergift der pestilentz das da genant ist der gemein sterbent der Trüsen Blatren
Work titles: Pestbuch
Notes: Largely based on Heinrich Steinhöwel's treatise on the plague, first printed in Ulm in 1473. Entire passages are copied verbatim. Cf. H.E. Sigerist, Hieronymus Brunschwig and his work. New York, 1946, p. 37-40.

Printed "mitwoch nach vnser lieben frowen humelfart"; Sudhoff dates it 18 Aug.

Fol. 40a, line 30: doch/vnderwegen liess vnd (BM: doch/nit vnderwegē liess vn̄).

Title in ISTC and Schullian: Pestbuch.

No restrictions on access copy.

Goff B-1228 [[Strassburg]: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 19 Aug. 1500]

Klebs, 228.1

GW, 5596

Walsh, J. E. 15th cent. printed books, 191

BM 15th cent. I, p. 115 (IB. 1501)

BN cat. des incun. B-870

BSB-Ink. B-933

Goff B1228

Schramm XX, no. 942-957

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel, 3645

Schullian, D.M. NLM Incun., 130

Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation. December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

From the William Norton Bullard Collection.

Initial spaces not filled in; without rubrication; woodcuts uncolored. Half 16th-century blind-stamped pigskin and wooden boards; vellum leaf of 13th-century ms. has been used as pastedown on inside front cover, but the text is largely obscured by large bookplate of Baron Ferdinand Hoffmann, engraved by Lucas Kilian after Matthäus Gundelach.