An earlier well-known work of devotion and of moral instruction, richly illustrated with stories, was
"Der Selen Würtzgart", first printed at
Ulm in 1483. The meaning of the title is "Herb garden of the Soul", which is similar to later titles. The first known edition of
Hortulus Animae, dated 13 March 1498, was printed at
Strasbourg by of
Ribeauvillé (
Rappschwihr), followed by German versions appearing in 1501. Later editions contained woodcuts by the well-known engravers
Hans Springinklee and
Erhard Schön, with beautiful miniatures in some existing manuscript examples, like the one at
Vienna (Cod.
Bibl. Pal. Vindobonensis. 2706, 1907), which has been reproduced as facsimile by . In 1501/1502,
Sebastian Brant from Strasbourg translated it into
German.
Hortulus Animae polonice, a Polish version written by
Biernat of Lublin, printed and published in 1513 by
Florian Ungler in
Kraków, was believed to be the first book printed in the
Polish language (it is the second). The last known copy was lost during
World War II. The work is mentioned briefly at the end of
Edgar Allan Poe's short story "
The Man of the Crowd." ==See also==