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Spet. '85
J.C. Martinez
12 R. St Sulpice
Paris
450 F = $45
Pietro Andrea Mattioli (Siena 1500 - Trento 1577)
Commentarii in sex libros .... Dioscoidis Anazarbei
de medica materia ....
Durling #3014 US National Library of Medicine
[Czech tr.] Herbarz: ginak beylinar. welmi
uzitecny, a figurami picknymi y zretedlnymi,...
Wytisstieno w Satem Miestia Praszskem.
V Girzyka Melantrycha z Awentynu.
1562 [20], cccxcii [18]11 illus i parts. 35 cm. f0
The work on distillation at the end is a translation
of the author's De ratione distillandi equas....
N.Y. Botanical Garden 1) Bronx Park, N.Y. 2) Mass. Horticultural Soc. Boston
Copy Brit M. CCCLX - Buglsfaum vulgere - Common or Garden Buglosse
(woodcut 6"x8 5/8") Ochaen zung - ox tongue
Mattioli's fame speread rapidly, + in 1555 he was summoned to
Prague by the Emperor Ferdinand I to treat his son, the Archduke
Maximilian. Here he remained for more than 23 yrs, + here too,
was first published the vast folio ed. of his Commentarii, with large
woodcut illustrations + Czech text (Girkii Malantryka, 1562.)
Seven further ed. followed between 1562 + 1604 with texts in
Ref: Grasse IV p. 446 German, Latin + Italian, + in all the Commentarii was issued,
in various formats + 5 different languages at least 45 times.
The artists who made bothe the small + the large woodcuts
for the Commentarii were an Italian, Giorgio Lierale of
Udine, + a German named Woldgang Meyerpeck. The big
set of figures is in every way immeasurably superior to the
small.
(Praha) - Prague - Jiri Cerny Rezdalovsky known as Melantrich.
- Dioscorides was born in Anazaiba, Cilica.

Bugloss, Vipers Echium Vulgare - The common name has a complex
derivation - from the Latin Buglossa, + the Greek
bouglossos, meaning "ox-tongue." Echium an old Greek
name meaning viper was applied to the plant at a later date
p. 655 Gerard's Herbal (L597) Buglossa vulagis - Common Buglosse or garden Buglosse
Buglossa - p. 141 Fuchs (1542).