Hortus sanitatis, 'The garden of health' (1485)

Hortus Sanitatis - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortus_Sanitatis

The Hortus Sanitatis (also written Ortus) the first natural history encyclopaedia, was published by Jacob Meydenbach in Mainz, Germany in 1485. It describes ...

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Treasures of the Library : Ortus sanitatis - Cambridge Digital Library

https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-INC-00003-A-00001-00008-00037

So this encyclopaedia is entitled Hortus sanitatis, 'The garden of health'. ... Hortus sanitatis describes familiar animals too, but adds details of which readers ...

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Happy #BackToHogwarts Day! One of our favourite lessons: Potions Class with Jacob Meydenbach's 'Ortus Sanitatis' (1491). Who’s with us?

(Strasbourg, Shelfmark IB.344)