HUNGER, FRIEDRICH WILHELM TOBIAS (DESCRIPTION AND COMMENTARY).

THE HERBAL OF PSEUDO-APULEIUS. FROM THE NINTH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT IN THE ABBEY OF MONTE CASSINO (CODEX CASINENSIS 97), TOGETHER WITH THE FIRST PRINTED EDITION OF JOH. PHIL. DE LIGNAMINE (EDITIO PRINCEPS ROMAE 1481), BOTH IN FACSIMILE, DESCRIBED AND ANNOTATED.

      XXXIX, 169 pp. detailed critical analysis, description, and facsimiles of the manuscript and the incunabula by Barbarus Apuleius, extensive annotation with bibliographical material, comparisons of various editions of the herbarium, transcriptions, analysis of related works, tables of plants, appendices, dozens of excellent plates throughout. Large folio. Orig. cloth-backed boards. Leiden (E. J. Brill) 1935. One of only 200 copies printed. A spectacular work, published carefully in a very small edition. The work is dedicated to the VI International Botainical Congress, Amsterdam, 1935, and the X International Congress for History of Medicine, Madrid 1935.