IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 279236 accession number: PB 185-2020 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 17 December 2020 updated: Thursday 17 December 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: De historia stirpivm commentarii insignes De historia stirpium commentarii insignes Privilege statement precedes the imprint on the t.p.: Cautum praeterea est inuictissimi Caroli Imperatoris decreto, ne quis alius impunè usquam locorum hos De stirpium historia commentarios excudat, iuxta tenorem priuilegij antè à nobis euulgati. Full-page woodcuts of the plants. The Latin and German plant names accompany the woodcuts; Greek names are included in the text. Woodcut portrait of Fuchs on the verso of the title leaf; woodcuts of the artists (Heinricus Füllmaurer and Albertus Meyer) and the engraver (Veit Rudolph Specklin) on the penultimate leaf; final leaf printer's device (device repeated on t.p.). Woodcut historiated initials throughout. Side-notes; includes indexes in Latin, Greek, and German. Old classmark: 370. Binding: panelled vellum with blind stamped ornament in centre; raised bands, spine hand-lettered. Botany Pictorial works Early works to 1800. Botany Pre-Linnean works. Botany, Medical Early works to 1800. title: PB 185-2020 NOTES ----- type: history note value: Provenance: bequeathed by J.R. Holliday 1927. Ms. inscr. on front free e.p.: 'C G C Reinwardt'. Ms. inscr. on t.p.: 'Valentin Friedrich Lobell'. Sale cat. no.? on front paste-down e.p. Booksellers' codes on front free e.p. & back paste-down e.p. Ms. annotations. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/279236 DATING ------ CREATORS -------- maker: Fuchs, Leonhart, maker: Isingrin, Michael maker: Specklin, Veit Rudolph, maker: Füllmaurer, Heinrich, maker: Specklin, Veit Rudolph, maker: Holliday, J. R., maker: Lobell, Valentin Friedrich, maker: Reinwardt, C. G. C. DIMENSIONS ---------- value: [28],896,[2]p : ill ; 39cm (fol. in 6s).