1499 – Incunable leaf from the Hortus Sanitatis (Garden of Health), an early natural history encyclopedia, which described species and their medicinal uses
Strasbourg: Johann Pruss, 1499. Disbound. The Hortus Sanitatis, written by an unknown author, was first published in 1491. It describes species in the natural world along with their medicinal uses and modes of preparation. It followed the Latin Herbarius moguntinus (1484) and the German Gart der Gesundheit (1485). Unlike these..... More