On October 22, the Book Museum hosted a creative lesson "Secrets of Antique Printed publications: discovering and understanding herbariums".
Young book experts saw unique editions of herbariums from the library's collection, got acquainted with images of medicinal plants from the "Herbarium" printed in the library by Peter Schöffer in Mainz in 1484, and “The Herbarium”, published in Venice in 1509.
In the 1484 edition, the engravings were hand-painted in green, yellow, red, and blue after printing. In the second copy of the Herbarium, plant images are not colored (woodcut).
As a creative task, the participants of the meeting hand-colored a printed page from the Herbarium of 1509.
The material is provided by the Bibliology research department.
