5 Incunabula Leaves
5 leaves with text and woodcuts, framed with glass on both sides.
Comprises the following:
One leaf from: Johannes de Cuba / Johann Wonnecke von Kaub: Gart der Gesundheit. Mainz, Peter Schöffer, 28 March 1485. (GW M09766, Hain 8948.) Woodcuts of a deer and a plant. Rubricated initials and paragraph marks.
One leaf from Aesopos: Vita et Fabulae. [Basel, Wolff, probably 1489 or earlier.] (GW 00350.) Woodcuts on both sides and a metalcut initial. A few wormholes.
One leaf from Terentius: Comoediae. Strassburg, Johann Grüninger, 11 Feb. 1499. (GW M 45485.) Woodcuts on both sides.
One leaf from Otto von Passau: Die vierundzwanzig Alten oder goldene Thron. [Strassburg, Johann Prüss, c. 1477/8.] (GW M 28510.) Printed in red & black, painted initial in red.
One leaf from: Hortus sanitatis. Mainz, Jakob Meydenbach, 23 June 1491. (GW 0166, Hain 8944.) With 3 woodcuts depicting lions, lizards and hoofed aninals.
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