HERB - "Hortulus" - notes

[Roberta R Comstock]

As much as anything, I pointed out the non-patrynimic nature ot Strabo as
a heads up that could help in doing modern reference searches by seeking
Walahfrid.  Strabo may yield some information, but modernly correct
listings will be by the given name.

Her follows a brief chronology of the _Hortulus_ quoted in much
abbreviated form from my copy of the 1966 Hunt Botanical Library edition:

"The principal manuscript of this poem, written by a scribe in a clear
Carolingian hand about a quarter of a century after the poet's death in
the year 849, long lay fallow awaiting recognition as a ninth-century
work of high literary merit.  In fact, it lay among the documents at the
Benedictine monastery in St. Gall for nearly six hundred years before it
was discovered, recopied (with errors made in the copying) and first set
in type. .....  In August 1509 Vadianus sent the poem, copied hastily
from the St. Gall manuscript, to his Viennese friend and teacher, Georg
Tannstetter Collimitius........ (who) arranged for it to be printed in
Vienna by Hieronymus Vietor, who dated the volume 29 October 1510.  The
manuscript written by Walahfrid Strabo about AS 840 thus became known in
central Europe six centuries after its composition..."

(The original manuscript  was presented to the Vatican Library  in 1690.)

..."known editions of the _Hortulus_ as an independent work, or in a
volume devoted solely to the work."

"1.  HORTULUS.  Wien, H. [Vietor] (Philovalus, _pseud._), 1510."
    .....
"2.  HORTULUS.  Norinberge, Officinas Dni. Joannis Weyssenburger, 1512."
     .....
"HORTULUS. Basileae, 1527.  Not seen, and not counted here as an
edition."
      .....
"3.  HORTULUS.  Wirceburg, J. Stahel, 1834."
     .....
"4.  HORTULUS or the Little Garden. {Wembley Hill}, The Stanton Press,
1924."
     .....
"5. HORTULUS. Munchen, Verlag der Munchner Drucke, 1926."
     .....
"6. LE PETIT JARDINIER. Paris, A. Legrand, 1933."
     .....
"7.  HORTULUS. St Gallen, H. Tschudy & Co., 1942."  
    .....
"8.  HORTULUS. St Gallen, H. Tschudy & Co., 1957."  
     .....

The author of these quotes is George H.M/ Lawrence, Director , Hunt
Botanical Library, 1965.  

(..... indicates presence of text not quoted.)

Hertha




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