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- Title
Jan Černý's Knieha lekarska (1517): closing a gap in the history of printed illustrated herbals.
- Authors
Funk, Holger
- Abstract
The first original illustrated herbal in the post-incunabula period after 1501 was Knieha lekarska by the Bohemian physician Jan Černý ( c.1456-1530), written in Czech but printed in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1517. This work is missing in nearly all histories of illustrated herbals and, if mentioned, it is never systematically evaluated. The present paper introduces the author and analyses his work with respect to the tradition of early herbals, questioning the opinion that no remarkable herbal was produced in the first two decades of the sixteenth century.
- Subjects
BOHEMIA (Czech Republic); CERNY, Jan; KNIEHA Lekarska (Book); INCUNABULA; HERBAL medicine; ZALUZANSKY, Adam
- Publication
Archives of Natural History, 2015, Vol 42, Issue 1, p153
- ISSN
0260-9541
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/anh.2015.0287