Ortus sanitatis
Ortus sanitatis is a late fifteenth-century natural history printed in Strasbourg by Johann Prüss, a herbal and compendium of plants, animals and minerals with a former owner named Ponanski. The woodcuts show stylised plants with sprawling leaves and roots, plus animal and mineral scenes set among dense black-letter text, offering a designer early printed botanical forms with strong outlines and simple, legible structure.
