Pages from Gaerde der suntheit (the Low German version of Gart der Gesundheit, or Garden of Health), with hand-colored illustrations

Item

Title

Pages from Gaerde der suntheit (the Low German version of Gart der Gesundheit, or Garden of Health), with hand-colored illustrations

Description

The text includes 519 hand-colored woodcuts of plants, animals, and medical scenes.

Subject

Herbals--Early works to 1800

Source

From the collections of the Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

Publisher

Lübeck : Steffen Arndes

Date

1492

Contributor

Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

Rights

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Format

Still image

Language

German

Type

Incunabula

Identifier

gaerde_der_sundheit_1492r.jpg

Item sets

Site pages

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