Book of Herbs Postcards
Reliefs Editions, ISBN 9782380362817,
Pb, 12 pgs, 11 x 15cm
Language: English & French
Acqn. 38268
Awaiting stock - please contact orders@artdata.co.uk to make preorders
£16.50
Pb, 12 pgs, 11 x 15cm
Language: English & French
Acqn. 38268
Awaiting stock - please contact orders@artdata.co.uk to make preorders
£16.50
These twelve plates are taken from a treatise by Johannes Hartlieb, completed in 1462, the Krauterbuch (Book of Herbs), which revises and expands upon the Buch der Natur (Book of Nature), the first German-language encyclopedia of natural history, published a century earlier by the Bavarian canon, entomologist, and meteorologist Konrad von Megenberg (1309-1374).Rather than a practical handbook intended for physicians and apothecaries, these 160 illustrations-highly colorful yet simplified-of medicinal plants (along with a few animals, some of them imaginary) should probably be regarded as a prestigious work created for the library of Albert III of Bavaria (1438-1460).