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Johannes de Cuba
Ortus sanitatis
Strassburg : [Johann Pruss], [ca. 1497]
Strassburg: [Johann Pruss], [ca. 1499]
The Ortus sanitatis is an important early herbal. There is some debate about the identity of the author but it seems most likely that it was the town-physician of Frankfurt, Dr. Johann Wonnecke von Caub. The work contains many pictures of plants, animals, birds, fishes, mer-people and stones. The illustrations although rather rudimentary are reasonably faithful to reality and were re-used many times in other works. One is an alternative to the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh’s symbol of a centaur this time reversed - a man with the head of ass.
Cuba, Johannes de, fl. 1484.
1497
1500
