Background
In 1444, he married Sibilla, possibly the daughter of Albert and Agnes Bernauer.
In 1444, he married Sibilla, possibly the daughter of Albert and Agnes Bernauer.
He was in the employment of Louis VII of Bavaria and Albert VI of Austria in the 1430s, and of Albert III of Bavaria from 1440, and of the latter"s son Sigismund from 1456. Hartlieb wrote a compendium on herbs in ca. 1440, and in 1456 the puch aller verpoten kunst, ungelaubens und der zaubrey (book on all forbidden arts, superstition and sorcery) on the artes magicae, containing the oldest known description of witches" flying ointment.
Hartlieb also produced German translations of various classical authors (Trotula, Macrobius, Gilbertinus, Muscio).
Works:
onomancy (18 mss, Heidelberger Schicksalsbuch Consumer Packaged Goods 832, Consumer Packaged Goods 408)
das puch aller verpoten kunst, ungelaubens und der zaubrey, 1450s, Consumer Packaged Goods 478, 78 foll. (in the hand of Clara Hätzlerin), 1465, educated
Eisermann and Graf (1989). Kräuterbuch (herbology), educated
Speta, Graz (1980). Chiromantia, 1448, printed as a Woodblock print in the 1470s, educated
Weil, München (1923). Trotula and de secretis mulierum, 1450s, Consumer Packaged Goods 480 educated Bosselmann, Würzburg (1985). translation of Caesarius von Heisterbach"s dialogus miraculorum, educated
1929.
sand Brandons buch (the journey of Saint Brendan), printed by Anton Sorg, Augsburg, ca.
1480.
"de amore" deutsch, translation of Andreas Capellanus" de amore, educated Karnein, München (1970), Berlin (1979).
Alexander Magnus, translation of the Alexander Romance, 1444, printed by Anton Sorg, Augsburg (1480), Martin Schott, Strassburg (1488). De mansionibus, Consumer Packaged Goods 6.
