Title from leaf a3r: "Vnd nennen dises Bůch zů latein Ortus sanitatis, auff teütsch Ain Garten der Gesunthait."

Title in colophon: Herbarius. A different work from the Latin-language Herbarius originally published in 1484.

Sometimes called Hortus sanitatis minor, though it is a different work from the Latin-language Hortus sanitatis originally published in 1491.

A compilation largely based on German-language manuscript sources. Johannes von Cuba, who gives his name at the end of chapter 76 (here, leaf g2v: "ain gůtte ercznei ... versůcht ... von mir, Maister Johannes von Cube"), was traditionally credited with authorship, though some modern authorities have disputed this (see Klebs, A.C. "Note on the 'Hortus problem.'" In Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 12 (1918): 54-57). Cuba is now generally assumed to have been the compiler of the text, mentioned in the preface as "ain maister in der ercznei gelert." For discussion of background and sources, see Keil, G. "Gart der Gesundheit." In Die Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters, Verfasserlexikon, v. 2, 1980, columns 1072-1092. See also: Fuchs, R.W. "Die Mainzer Frühdrucke mit Buchholzschnitten 1480-1500." In Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens, Bd. 2 (1960): 1-129, pages 81-96.

The work was presumably commissioned and overseen by Bernhard von Breydenbach, who is assumed to be the author of the preface (leaves a2r-a3r). See Fuchs, pages 84-85.

Original edition published in Mainz, 1485, by Peter Schöffer, who may have composed the end of the preface. This is the fifth dated edition.

Imprint transcribed from colophon.

Signatures: a-z⁸ A-D⁸ E⁶ F-G⁸ H¹⁰(H10 blank).

Unpaged and unfoliated. Indexes refer to chapter numbers. Chapter 12 is wrongly numbered xi; chapter 321 is wrongly numbered cccxxvi.

Printed in 2 columns; Gothic type; 38-40 lines. Initial spaces.

Illustrations: Full-page woodcut (three seated savants attended by nine standing men) on leaf a1v (recto is blank); 394 column-width cuts (including one repeat) illustrating botanical and other materia medica; final cut portrays a woman and a physician holding a uroscopy flask. Chiefly based on the cuts in the original edition, reduced and simplified; nearly all are closely related to the cuts in an approximately contemporaneous undated edition by Johann Grüninger, Strasbourg (ISTC ig00099000). Nissen (cited below) believed the cuts in the Dinckmut edition to be copies of those in the Grüninger edition, while Amelung (cited below) believes the relationship is reversed. All cuts are reproduced in Schramm (cited below). Approximately 65 of the original drawings have been attributed to Erhard Reuwich; see Nissen, pages 29-33. For a detailed analysis of the cuts in the original edition, disputing the Reuwich attribution, see: Baumann, B. Die Mainzer Kräuterbuch-Inkunabeln "Herbarius Moguntinus" (1484), "Gart der Gesundheit" (1485), "Hortus sanitatis" (1491), 2010, pages 115-143.

Includes indexes.

In German; names of plants and other materia medica in Latin and German.

Incipit, leaf a2r: [O]fft vn[d] vil hab ich bey mir selbs betrachtet die wundersammen Werck des Schöpffers der Naturen ...

Herbarius

Ortus sanitatis, auff teütsch Ain Garten der Gesunthait

fft vn vil hab ich bey mir selbs betrachtet die wundersammen Werck des Schöpffers der Naturen ...

Oft und viel hab ich bei mir selbst betrachtet die wundersamen Werk des Schöpfers der Naturen ...

Incunabula short title catalogue, ig00103000

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, G103

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M09746

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, W-96

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, v. 2, page 535 (IB. 9359).

Schramm, A. Bilderschmuck der Frühdrucke, v. 6, pages 8-14, figures 178-573

Amelung, P. Frühdruck im deutschen Südwesten 1473-1500, 115

Catalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt, v. 1, 6

Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration, 2280

Klebs, A.C. "Incunabula lists. I. Herbals." In Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 11-12 (1917-1918): 75-92, 41-53, page 45, no. 5

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 4338

Materia medica > Early works to 1800.

Materia medica, Vegetable > Early works to 1800.

Botany > Pre-Linnean works.

Botany, Medical > Early works to 1800.

Natural history > Pre-Linnean works.

Herbals > Early works to 1800.

Urine > Analysis > Early works to 1800.

Woodcuts.

Incunabula.

Fragments (object portions)