Title page from 'Hortus Sanitatis' by Jacob Meidenbach (1497). This book contained descriptions and drawings of plants, animals, birds, fish and miner

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Title page from 'Hortus Sanitatis' by Jacob Meidenbach (1497). This book contained descriptions and drawings of plants, animals, birds, fish and minerals. Some of the drawings were highly stylised and some of the creatures mythical.

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