Inula helenium, or Fleabane (Elenium), original woodblock designed and cut by Giorgio Liberale and Wolfgang Meyerpeck for the 1562 and 1565 editions of Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de materia medica.

Inula helenium, or Fleabane (Elenium), original woodblock designed and cut by Giorgio Liberale and Wolfgang Meyerpeck for the 1562 and 1565 editions of Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de materia medica.

This block is from the only surviving series of original blocks representing the great folio woodcut-illustrated scientific books of the mid-sixteenth century. Shown with the block is its image as printed in T.J. Fitzpatrick's copy (exhibit 8) of the Commentarii (Venetiis: Ex officina Valgrisiana, 1565. Summerfield E696), acquired by Fitzpatrick in 1923 from Emile Nourry of Paris; with an 18th century pharmacist's bookplate: Martin Apot. place aux Bleds.

Gift of Katherine E. Stannard in memory of Jerry Stannard, professor of the History of Science at the University of Kansas. Acquired in 1989 from Alecto Historical Editions.

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