Liber pestilentialis de venenis epidimie: Das Buch der Vergift der Pestile[n]tz das da gena[n]t ist der gemein Sterbent der trüsen Blatren,

Brunschwig, Hieronymus, approximately 1450-approximately 1512, Grüninger, Johann, -1532?, printer, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1500 · [Strassburg] Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 19 Aug, (Mittwoch nach Unser Lieben Frauen Himmelfahrt) 1500. · 22 pictures

A 1500 German plague treatise by the surgeon Hieronymus Brunschwig, printed in Strassburg by Johann Grüninger for lay readers seeking remedies against the pestilence. The pages are woodcut-illustrated, with blocky gothic type in columns and small scenes of physicians, apothecaries and distillation work. A designer might take the compact, rhythmic layout of incunabula text blocks and the vignettes of workshops and apothecary jars as period reference.

Early works to 1800 · France · Incunabula · Plague · Strasbourg

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