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Pedanius Dioscorides of Anazarbus ( fl. A.D. 50-70)

Auction 08.11.2000
08.11.2000
Schätzpreis
7.000 £ - 10.000 £
ca. 9.984 $ - 14.264 $
Zuschlagspreis:
10.575 £
ca. 15.084 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 20

Pedanius Dioscorides of Anazarbus ( fl. A.D. 50-70)

Auction 08.11.2000
08.11.2000
Schätzpreis
7.000 £ - 10.000 £
ca. 9.984 $ - 14.264 $
Zuschlagspreis:
10.575 £
ca. 15.084 $
Beschreibung:

Pedanius Dioscorides of Anazarbus ( fl. A.D. 50-70) De medicinali materia libri sex . Translated by Jean de la Ruelle, commentary by Walther Hermann Ryff. Frankfurt-am-Main: Christian Egenolph, April 1549. 2° (314 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, devices and all but a few illustrations coloured in a contemporary hand, woodcut initials. (Variable spotting and browning, clean tear on Cc4 touching catchword, small flaws on P2 and X2 touching single words, unobtrusive marginal worming on gatherings y-z, worming causing minor loss of text on Aa1-Bb5 and more heavily on k6-l3, y6 detached.) Contemporary vellum, the covers decorated with central, oval gilt stamps composed of interlacing foliate designs, that on the upper cover stamped over an earlier armorial, the flat spine titled in manuscript at the head (endpapers replaced, vellum discoloured, marked, and wormed with loss on upper cover, upper joint partially split, lacking ties). THE SECOND EGENOLPH EDITION OF DE MEDICINALI MATERIA LIBRI SEX , WITH CONTEMPORARY COLOURING, CONSIDERED 'ONE OF THE MORE EXTENSIVE AND IMPORTANT [EDITIONS] TO BE PRODUCED' (Eimas). De medicinali materia was the fons et origo of botanical knowledge until the early seventeenth century: as Sprengel states, 'during more than sixteen centuries [Dioscorides] was looked up to as the sole authority, so that everything botanical began with him. Every one who undertook the study of botany, or the identification of medicines swore by his words. Evan as late as the beginning of the seventeenth century both the academic and the private study of botany may almost be said to have begun and ended with the text of Dioscorides' (quoted by Greene Landmarks of Botanical History p.219). The present edition employs Jean de la Ruelle's Latin translation of the Aldine greek edition of 1499 (which was first published in Paris in 1516, and appeared in more than thirty editions before 1544), and adds the commentary of Ryff, first published by Egenolph in 1543. The text of the 1543 edition is extended by the addition of Valerius Cordus' Annotationes (pp.449-533), Euricius Cordius' Iudicium de herbis et simplicibus medicinae (pp.534-541), and Konrad Gesner's Herbarum nomenclaturae variarum gentium (pp.541-554). These additions and the indices in five languages, provided most of the necessary apparatus to make de la Ruelle's translation a work of the greatest use to contemporary readers. Nissen notes that the majority of the illustrations - 786 woodcuts, rather than the 595 of Egenolph's 1543 edition - are taken from Rösslin's Kreutterbuch (which was also published by Egenolph). Adams D-664; BM(NH) I, p.464; Durling 1152; Eimas 30; Graesse II, p.403; Harvard Arnold p.205; Nissen BBI 496; Pritzel 2308; Wellcome I, 1788.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 20
Auktion:
Datum:
08.11.2000
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

Pedanius Dioscorides of Anazarbus ( fl. A.D. 50-70) De medicinali materia libri sex . Translated by Jean de la Ruelle, commentary by Walther Hermann Ryff. Frankfurt-am-Main: Christian Egenolph, April 1549. 2° (314 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, devices and all but a few illustrations coloured in a contemporary hand, woodcut initials. (Variable spotting and browning, clean tear on Cc4 touching catchword, small flaws on P2 and X2 touching single words, unobtrusive marginal worming on gatherings y-z, worming causing minor loss of text on Aa1-Bb5 and more heavily on k6-l3, y6 detached.) Contemporary vellum, the covers decorated with central, oval gilt stamps composed of interlacing foliate designs, that on the upper cover stamped over an earlier armorial, the flat spine titled in manuscript at the head (endpapers replaced, vellum discoloured, marked, and wormed with loss on upper cover, upper joint partially split, lacking ties). THE SECOND EGENOLPH EDITION OF DE MEDICINALI MATERIA LIBRI SEX , WITH CONTEMPORARY COLOURING, CONSIDERED 'ONE OF THE MORE EXTENSIVE AND IMPORTANT [EDITIONS] TO BE PRODUCED' (Eimas). De medicinali materia was the fons et origo of botanical knowledge until the early seventeenth century: as Sprengel states, 'during more than sixteen centuries [Dioscorides] was looked up to as the sole authority, so that everything botanical began with him. Every one who undertook the study of botany, or the identification of medicines swore by his words. Evan as late as the beginning of the seventeenth century both the academic and the private study of botany may almost be said to have begun and ended with the text of Dioscorides' (quoted by Greene Landmarks of Botanical History p.219). The present edition employs Jean de la Ruelle's Latin translation of the Aldine greek edition of 1499 (which was first published in Paris in 1516, and appeared in more than thirty editions before 1544), and adds the commentary of Ryff, first published by Egenolph in 1543. The text of the 1543 edition is extended by the addition of Valerius Cordus' Annotationes (pp.449-533), Euricius Cordius' Iudicium de herbis et simplicibus medicinae (pp.534-541), and Konrad Gesner's Herbarum nomenclaturae variarum gentium (pp.541-554). These additions and the indices in five languages, provided most of the necessary apparatus to make de la Ruelle's translation a work of the greatest use to contemporary readers. Nissen notes that the majority of the illustrations - 786 woodcuts, rather than the 595 of Egenolph's 1543 edition - are taken from Rösslin's Kreutterbuch (which was also published by Egenolph). Adams D-664; BM(NH) I, p.464; Durling 1152; Eimas 30; Graesse II, p.403; Harvard Arnold p.205; Nissen BBI 496; Pritzel 2308; Wellcome I, 1788.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 20
Auktion:
Datum:
08.11.2000
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London, King Street
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