The Transfer of Knowledge


The Transfer of Knowledge: Art of Botanical Illustration [1491 - 1920]

Bibliography and Credits

Web exhibit executed and designed by:

Kathy Allen, Plant Science Librarian, Magrath Library
Elaine Challacombe, Curator, Wangensteen Historical Library of Medicine and Biology
Richard T. Isaacson, Retired. Andersen Horticultural Library
Laura Wiegand, Library Assistant III, Plant Pathology Library
Dustin Fields, Student Library Assistant

Bibliography

Listing of Included Works

  • Bock, Hieronymus. Kreuter büch. Darinn onderscheidt namen und würckung der kreutter… Straszburg: W. Rihel, 1551. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
  • Brunfels, Otto. Herbarum vivae eicons. Illustrated by Hans Weiditz. Strassburgh: J. Schott, 1530-36. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
  • Dodoens, Rembert. A nievve herball, or, Historie of plantes…Translated by Henry Lyte. London: Gerard Dewes, 1578. Andersen Horticultural Library and Wagensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
  • Dorsten, Dietrich. Botanicon, continens herbarum, aliorumque simplicium, quorum usus in medicinis est, descriptiones, & iconas ad uiuum effigiatas…Aut. Theodorico Dorstenio. Francoforti, C. Egenolphus excudebat [1540]. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
  • Fuchs, Leonhart. De historia stirpium commentarii insignes…Basileae, in officina Isingriniana, 1542. Andersen Horticultural Library and Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
  • Gerard, John. The Herball, or, Generall Historie of Plantes. London: J. Norton, 1597-98. Andersen Horticultural Library.
  • Gerard, John. The Herball. Enlarged and revised by T. Johnson. London: A. Islip, J. Norton and R. Whitakers, 1633. Andersen Horticultural Library.
  • Herbarius: Incipit tractatus de virtutibus herbarum see Incipit tractatus...
  • Hortus sanitatus see Ortus sanitatus.
  • Incipit tractatus de virtutibus herbarum. Venetiis: Impressum per Christophorum de Pensis, 1502. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
  • Le Grant Herbier en Francoys.On les vend a Paris: En la rue neufue nostre Dame a lenseigne de lescue de France [Colophon: Alain Lotrain], [1535?] Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine
  • L’Obel, Matthias de. Plantarum seu stirpium historia / Matthiae de Lobel Insulani ; Cui annexum est adversariorum volumen ; Reliqua sequens pagina indicabit. Antverpiae : Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1576. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
  • Lonitzer, Adam. Herbarum, arborum, fruticum, frumentorum ac leguminum. Francoforti: apud C. Egenolphum, 1546. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
  • Macer, Floridus. De Herbarum virtutibus Aemilii Macri Veronensis elegantissima poësis…Basileae: Impressum per Henricum Petri, 1559. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
  • Macer, Floridus. Herbaru vires Macer tibi carmie dicet. [1522]. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
  • Mattioli, Pietro Andrea. Petri Andreae Matthioli senensis medici Commentarii, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis…Venetijs: in officiana Erasmiana, apud Vincentium Vlgrisium, 1554. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
  • Mattioli, Pietro Andrea.New Kreüterbuch and Von Distillier und Brennöfen.Prague: G. Melantrich & V. Valgrisi, 1563. Andersen Horticultural Library.
  • Ortus sanitatus. Moguntiae: J. Mayenbach, 1491. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
  • Turner, William. Herbal and Booke of the Bath. Cologne: A. Birckman, 1568. Andersen Horticultural Library.

Bibliography and Sources

  • Anderson, Frank J. An illustrated history of the herbals. New York: Columbia University Press. 1977.
  • Anderson, Frank J., ed. German book illustration through 1500: Herbals through 1500. New York: Abaris Books. 1983.
  • Arber, Agnes Robertson. Herbals: Their origin and evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1938.
  • Blunt, Wilfred. The art of botanical illustration. London: Collins. (New edition by Wilfred Blunt and William T. Stearn. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors Club and Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, 1994.) 1950.
  • Blunt, Wilfrid and Sandra Raphael. The illustrated herbal. New York: Thomas and Hudson/Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1979.
  • Dunthorne, Gordon. Flower and fruit prints of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Washington DC: Author. 1938.
  • Grieve, Mrs. M. A modern herbal. London: Jonathan Cape. 1974.
  • Hunt, Rachel McMasters Miller. Catalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt. Compiled by Jane Quinby. 3 vols. Pittsburgh: Hunt Botanical Library. 1958-.
  • Janson, H.W. History of art: A survey of the major visual arts from the dawn of history to the present day. Second edition. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall/ New York: Harry N. Abrams. 1962,1977.
  • Johnston, Stanley H. The Cleveland herbal, botanical and horticultural collections. Kent Ohio: Kent State University Press. 1992.
  • Johnston, Stanley H. Cleveland’s treasures from the world of botanical literature. Wilmington Ohio: Orange Frazer Press. 1998.
  • Meyer, Frederick G. The great herbal of Leonhart Fuchs: De historia stirpium commentarii insignes, 1542 (Notable commentaries on the history of plants). Frederick G. Meyer, Emily Emmart Trueblood and John L. Heller. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 2 vols. 1999.
  • Nissen, Claus. Die botanische buchillustration: Ihre geschichte und bibliographie. Stuttgart: Hiersemann Verlages-Gesellschaft. 1951.
  • Nissen, Claus. Herbals of five centuries; 50 original leaves from German, French, Dutch, English, Italian, and Swiss herbals, with an introduction and bibliography. München: L’Art Ancien S.A. Zürich. 1958.
  • Pritzel. G.A. Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium. Koenigstein,-TS, Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Otto Koeltz Antiquariat. 1972.
  • Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair. The old English herbals. London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1922.
  • Shaffer, Ellen. The garden of health: An account of two herbals, the Gart der Gesundheit and the Hortus Sanitatis. San Francisco: Book Club of California. 1957.