Saturday 19 April 2014
Photo, above: A Klebs Incunabula Herbal, 1492. This book is a translation into Low German and enlargement of the Gart der Gesundheit of 1485, the first illustrated herbal to be printed. (Klebs helped Cushing to obtain the Library’s copy of this 1485 incunabule). The text includes 519 hand-colored...