A plant (Myristica malabarica): branch with fruit, kernels, flowers and floral segments. Coloured line engraving.
- Date:
- [1683]
- Reference:
- 15808i
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Description
Nutmeg tree = Myristica fragans Houtt.
Publication/Creation
[Amsterdam], [1683]
Physical description
1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 34.2 x 43.6 cm
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Lettering
Panam-pálca. lat. ... mal. Ambadikì. ... bram. ... Arab.
Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. M. Holmes: "Myristica malabarica Lam. N.O. 141"
Title transcribed in Nagari, Malayalam, Arabic and Roman alphabet
References note
See further: K.S. Manilal (ed.), Botany and history of Hortus Malabaricus, Rotterdam, 1980, ch. 2 by M. Fournier, pp. 6-21
J. Heniger, Hendrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakestein (1636-1691) and Hortus Malabaricus, Rotterdam, 1986
Reference
Wellcome Collection 15808i
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Location Status Access Closed stores