{"product_id":"livre-des-herbes-postcards-by-johannes-hartlieb","title":"LIVRE DES HERBES [POSTCARDS] by Johannes Hartlieb","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA set of twelve postcards. \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eThese twelve plates are taken from a treatise by Johannes Hartlieb completed in 1462, the \u003cem\u003eKraüterbuch\u003c\/em\u003e (Book of Herbs), which draws on and expands the \u003cem\u003eBuch der Nature\u003c\/em\u003e, the first natural history encyclopaedia in the German language, published a century earlier by the Bavarian canon, entomologist and meteorologist Konrad von Megenberg (1309–1374). Rather than a handbook for physicians and apothecaries, these 160 illustrations — highly coloured but simplified — of medicinal herbs (along with a few animals, some of them imaginary) should probably be seen as a prestige work intended for the library of Albert III of Bavaria (1438–1460).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Data","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58862700003712,"sku":null,"price":16.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/4524\/8002\/files\/bookofherbscardsfront.jpg?v=1788534420","url":"https:\/\/londonbookarts.org\/products\/livre-des-herbes-postcards-by-johannes-hartlieb","provider":"London Centre for Book Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}