Herbarum Imagines Vivae

Title: Herbarum Imagines Vivae
Description: Herbarum Imagines Vivae was created by the German printer Christian Egenolff. It primarily contains illustrations of living plants, with an included index. This book served as a field guide for identifying plants, as well as a guide to determine some of the plants’ uses as remedies. Egenolff was sued by Johannes Schott in 1533 over alleged copyright infringement in Herbarum Imagines Vivae—however, Egenolff argued that nature could not be copyrighted and that all artists were free to use any plant as a model. This black and white facsimile comes in a velour-lined sheepskin box, and contains no publishing or editorial notes in its reproduction.
Creator: Egenolff, Christian, 1502-1555
Date: 1535 [original text published]; 1970 [facsimile published]
Format: 14.4cm x 19.1cm x 1.3cm
Identifier: QK99 E29 (1535) 1970
Publisher: Medicina Rara (Tübingen, DE)
Type: Book with sheepskin box
Original Format: Book
Tag: 16th-century texts; Facsimiles; German printers; German publishers