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Curated by his daughter Nora and award-winning music historian Robert Santelli
working as a baker
the Morgan
These books were working manuals and frequently annotated by readers with notes of herbal recipes/medicines or other uses not found in the printed text
Wieck describes this charmingly painted manuscript that reached the interest of the public only in 2008 by means of a private donation to the Pierpont Morgan Library
Mattioli's Herbal with Print Curated by his daughter NoraThis edition of only 350 copies was printed to mark the opening of the Morgans 2003 exhibition Picturing Natural History: Flora and Fauna in Drawings, Manuscripts, and Printed Books. Each copy includes a short account of the illustrations and a black and white print from the original woodblock of asarum from Mattioli's Herbal of 1562. Each copy is numbered from the edition of 350 copies.