Gart der Gesundheit.
Edited by Johann von Cube.
Augsburg: Johann Schönsperger, 10 May 1496.
Fol. π4 a-v8 w8 x-z8 A-D8 E6 F8 G-H6 I8. [262] leaves (a1 and I8 blank).
Woodcuts.
ISTC ig00106000; GW M09759; Goff G106; BSB-Ink W-102.
BSB-Ink enters under Johann Wonnecke.
| GIP number: | G12 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll S.M. 1987 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Johann Georg Rhorrer (17th century): on π1r washed-out inscription (partially legible under ultraviolet lamp) “Ex libris Doct: Joan: Georg: Rhorrer [...]”. Sir John Stirling Maxwell, 10th baronet, (1866-1956): armorial bookplate on front pastedown; engraved booklabel “Arts of Design” on rear pastedown; arms on both covers (see Binding); Stirling Maxwell library shelfmarks “11B” on rear pastedown and “H.4” on front pastedown; source unknown. University of Glasgow: Sir John Stirling Maxwell bequeathed a portion of the Stirling Maxwell library to the University of Glasgow Library in 1956 (received in 1958). |
| Binding: | England, 19th-century black goatskin; Sir John Stirling Maxwell’s arms in gilt on both covers; gold-tooled spine; gilt-edged leaves; binder’s stamp in gilt on turn-in at foot of front board “Bound by Riviere & Son”. Size: 273 x 200 mm. |
| Leaf size: | Leaf size: 266 x 187 mm. |
| Annotations: | Price in pencil on front pastedown “£28”; on rear flyleaf “A.B.” in pencil; letter referring to this herbal, dated 9 Sept. 1923, to Sir John Stirling Maxwell from Gerald Walter Erksine Loder (1861-1936), 1st Baron Wakehurst, loosely inserted. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaves a1 and I8. |
