TheMunich Texts and Studies on German Medieval Literature (MTU), published by Max Niemeyer from Volume 102 onwards, provide access to texts, materials and genre which have hitherto not been available or easily accessible. Besides courtly poetry and heroic epics and song poetry from the High and Late Middle Ages, the series principally presents sacred and profane prose writings, from theological tracts via mysticism to plays and non-fiction works from everyday life in the Middle Ages. The selections of works to be published is undertaken by an international board of medievalists from various disciplines.

Before the middle of the fifteenth century the Munich physician and author wrote an herbal that describes the medical efficacy of more than 170 drugs drawn from plants and animals. With its large format pictorial representations of animals and plants, it is the only completely illustrated herbal from the incunable period in the German language. The text is presented here for the first time in a critical edition. Information about the author, the transmission and textual history, as well as a glossary complement the edition. Furthermore, a representative selection of 64 full-page color reproductions is appended from the lead manuscript used as the basis for the text.