Hortus Sanitatis (The Garden of Health)

Printer Jacob Meydenbach

Place of OriginGermany (Mainz)

Date1491

DimensionsOverall: 8 1/2 x 12 in. (21.6 x 30.5 cm)

MediumHand colored woodcut

ClassificationBooks

Object number

1929.176

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Label TextSchoffer's GART DER GESUNDHEIT was the most popular herbal of its day, but it was rivaled by Meydenbach's herbal. Besides plants, this book included sections on birds, animals, fish, stones, and minerals.

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