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    The Hortus Sanitatis (also written Ortus; Latin for The Garden of Health), a Latin natural history encyclopaedia, was published by Jacob Meydenbach in...
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    14th Century Herbarius moguntinus 1484 – Gart der Gesundheit 1485 – Hortus sanitatis 1491 In 1586 the German physician Joachim Camerarius the Younger wrote...
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    or 4th century A.D. It is found in Medieval bestiaries such as the Hortus Sanitatis of Jacob Meydenbach. It is also referenced in some sources as a Formicaleon...
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    Moschus moschiferus, Siberian musk deer "Musk-cat", woodcut from Hortus Sanitatis, 1491 Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus), a rodent native to North America...
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    but illegal poaching and trading continues. "Musk-cat", woodcut from Hortus Sanitatis, 1490 Musk-Cat, 1658 Musk deer belong to the family Moschidae. White-bellied...
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    {{cite book}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) Hortus sanitatis deutsch. Mainz (Peter Schöffer) 1485; Neudrucke München 1924 and 1966...
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    Left: Hortus Sanitatis, Straßburg 1497 (I, 14). Right: Reversed copy. Kleines Destillierbuch (Blatt 65r) Althaea officinalis. Left: Hort. Sanitatis, Straßburg...
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  • The Birds of America by John James Audubon, a two volume edition of Hortus Sanitatis and a first edition of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin....
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    Manuscript Herbals held by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries Hortus sanitatis (1485) – digital facsimile from the Linda Hall Library Ain Garten der...
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    Myrmecoleon, from the Hortus Sanitatis of Jacob Meydenbach, 1491...
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    The Gart der Gesundheit (Early German for Latin hortus sanitatis) was edited in 1485. It was written by Johann Wonnecke von Kaub and was one of the first...
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    A less sophisticated woodcut book illustration of the Hortus Sanitatis lapidary, Venice, Bernardino Benaglio e Giovanni de Cereto (1511)...
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    Gart der Gesundheit (Peter Schöffer, Mainz 1485) and the Latin herbal Hortus sanitatis (Jacobus Meydenbach, Mainz 1491), Herbarius moguntinus belongs to the...
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    Medieval woodcut print depicting an onion, from the Latin encyclopedia Hortus Sanitatis (1547)...
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    of them, the Herbarius Latinus, printed in Passau in 1486, and the Hortus Sanitatis, printed in Mainz in 1491, are among the earliest printed books with...
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    Collection of a Toadstone, illustrated in Hortus Sanitatis, published in Mainz in 1491....
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    million ancient and priceless books and manuscripts, including the Hortus sanitatis. The library at Aberdeen was given the right of legal deposit under...
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  • (1540–1611) 1613 Hortus Eystettensis Basilius Besler (1561–1629) 1614 Florence Étude de Botanique Girolamo Pini 1614–16 Utrecht Hortus floridus Crispijn...
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  • 1474 Alfonso de la Torre, Visio delectable, c.1484 Jacob Meydenbach, Hortus Sanitatis, 1491 Giorgio Valla, De expetendis et fugiendis rebus, 1501 Domenico...
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    collection in Rome. This collaboration resulted in a photo-book, titled Hortus Sanitatis (Latin for 'garden of health'), published by Gucci and launched at...
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  • in the Thordarson Collection" "Of the greatest [herbal] of all, the Hortus Sanitatis, Mr. Thordarson's copy of the edition of 1561 is a remarkably beautiful...
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    Milano, Scalpendi Editore, 2021. Cristina Molina, Antonio Rovelli, Hortus sanitatis.Arte, storia e virtù terapeutiche nel coro ligneo della chiesa di San...
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    a paper before the Bibliographical Society On the "Herbarius" and "Hortus Sanitatis." In 1903 and 1904 Payne delivered the first FitzPatrick lectures on...
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    "Horticulture and Health in the Middle Ages: Images from the Tacuinum Sanitatis". HortScience. 45 (11): 1592–1596. doi:10.21273/HORTSCI.45.11.1592. S2CID 86510163...
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    final factor was a shifting view toward a more "enclosed" garden space (hortus conclusus), a dominant trend in Europe at that time. The open views and...
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  • and King Ahasuerus depicted dining on, among other things, a fish dish and a pretzel; illustration from Hortus deliciarum, Alsace, late 12th century....
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    many points in common with the contemporary production of the Tacuinum sanitatis illustrated in the Lombard region. The manuscript may date from the period...
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