DIOSCORIDES OF ANAZARBUS, Pedanius (fl. 50-70). De medicinali materia libri sex . Translated by Jean de la Ruelle, commentary by Walther Hermann Ryff. Frankfurt: Christian Egenolph, April 1549. 2° (319 x 200mm). Roman, italic, and Greek and fraktur types used for text, commentary and plant names respectively. Woodcut printer's device on title, repeated on z8v, 786 woodcut illustrations, including some repeats, woodcut initials. (Title and early leaves soiled at margins, some browning, marginal waterstaining, l2 affected by paper fault.) Contemporary blindstamped vellum, front cover with the arms of Fredrik, King of Denmark, and of the Holy Roman Empire, with the initials "G.R.E." above and the date 1578 below, the whole enclosed by roll-tool borders, rear cover with the arms of August I, elector of Saxony, and of the Holy Roman Empire in a different version (rather rubbed and worn, particularly on the lower cover which is also soiled). Provenance : G.R.E. (initials on binding) -- Georg Balthazar Wohlfort PhD (early ownership signature on front pastedown and [?]his copious annotations and scoring in green ink). SECOND EGENOLPH EDITION of De medicinali materia , considered 'one of the more extensive and important [editions] to be produced' (Eimas). Jean de la Ruelle's Latin translation had first appeared in the Aldine Greek edition of 1499, while Ryff's commentary was first introduced in the earlier Egenolph edition of 1543. However, in this edition the text is further extended by the addition of Valerius Cordus's Annotationes (pp. 449-533), Euricius Cordius's Iudicium de herbis et simplicibus medicinae (pp. 534-541), and Konrad Gesner's Herbarum nomenclaturae variarum gentium (pp. 541-554); there is also an index in five languages. The majority of the illustrations, 786 woodcuts in comparison to the 595 of the first edition, are taken from Rösslin's Kreutterbuch , which Egenolph also published. Adams D-664; Durling 1152; Eimas 30; Graesse II, p. 403; Harvard Arnold p. 205; Nissen BBI 496; Pritzel 2308; Wellcome I, 1788.
DIOSCORIDES OF ANAZARBUS, Pedanius (fl. 50-70). De medicinali materia libri sex . Translated by Jean de la Ruelle, commentary by Walther Hermann Ryff. Frankfurt: Christian Egenolph, April 1549. 2° (319 x 200mm). Roman, italic, and Greek and fraktur types used for text, commentary and plant names respectively. Woodcut printer's device on title, repeated on z8v, 786 woodcut illustrations, including some repeats, woodcut initials. (Title and early leaves soiled at margins, some browning, marginal waterstaining, l2 affected by paper fault.) Contemporary blindstamped vellum, front cover with the arms of Fredrik, King of Denmark, and of the Holy Roman Empire, with the initials "G.R.E." above and the date 1578 below, the whole enclosed by roll-tool borders, rear cover with the arms of August I, elector of Saxony, and of the Holy Roman Empire in a different version (rather rubbed and worn, particularly on the lower cover which is also soiled). Provenance : G.R.E. (initials on binding) -- Georg Balthazar Wohlfort PhD (early ownership signature on front pastedown and [?]his copious annotations and scoring in green ink). SECOND EGENOLPH EDITION of De medicinali materia , considered 'one of the more extensive and important [editions] to be produced' (Eimas). Jean de la Ruelle's Latin translation had first appeared in the Aldine Greek edition of 1499, while Ryff's commentary was first introduced in the earlier Egenolph edition of 1543. However, in this edition the text is further extended by the addition of Valerius Cordus's Annotationes (pp. 449-533), Euricius Cordius's Iudicium de herbis et simplicibus medicinae (pp. 534-541), and Konrad Gesner's Herbarum nomenclaturae variarum gentium (pp. 541-554); there is also an index in five languages. The majority of the illustrations, 786 woodcuts in comparison to the 595 of the first edition, are taken from Rösslin's Kreutterbuch , which Egenolph also published. Adams D-664; Durling 1152; Eimas 30; Graesse II, p. 403; Harvard Arnold p. 205; Nissen BBI 496; Pritzel 2308; Wellcome I, 1788.
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