Borcht, Pieter van der, 1545-1608 Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585 Kampen, Geeraard Jansen van, active 1564-1589 Nicolai, Arnaud
Published / Created:
1568
Call Number:
1991 328
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Forum et coronariarum odoratarumque nonnullarum herbarum historia.
Description:
Illustrations: 107 woodcuts by A. Nicolai and G. J. Van Kampen after P. van der Borcht. Publisher's device on title page., Includes index., Nissen: Botanische Buchillustration, no. 514. Hunt: Catalogue, I, 101. Funck: Livre belge à gravures, 306. Delen: Gravure dans les anciens Pays-Bas, 11(1), 83, 109, 127., and Signatures: A-V⁸.
Publisher:
Ex officina Christophori Plantini,
Subject (Name):
Rastelij, Jo. Bernardini--Autograph
Subject (Topic):
Botany, Medical--Early works to 1800, Botany--Pre-Linnean works, and Wood-engraving, Dutch
Manuscript on parchment of Formularium novum, copied after an unbound exemplar in the hands of master Ulrich, librarius at the papal court in Rome. Preserved from the end of chapter 531 up to the end of the text, i.e. chapter 586. Many documents have connections with Bologna. Also contains an undated and unsigned letter addressed to a Pope, answering a letter by the General of the Franciscan order and referring to an invasion of property belonging to the writer's family by a certain Tiburtius, made into a formula
Description:
In Latin., Script: Art. 1 copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria; art. 2 is in another hand, writing a small script of the same type., Headings in red; instructions for them are written in small Cursiva in the margins, together with the chapter numbers. 2-line flourished initials, alternately red with purple and blue with red penwork. Art. 2 is undecorated., The reading is doubtful at many places. The corners and outer edges of the final leaves damaged., and Unbound.
