Avicennia officinalis L.: branch with flowers, fruit and leaves and separate sections of fruits, flowers and kernels. Coloured line engraving.

Date:
[1683]
Reference:
15950i
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[Amsterdam], [1683]

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1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 34.4 x 43.8 cm

Lettering

Oépata. lat. ... mal. Upalì ... bra. ... Arab. Title transcribed in Nagari, Malayalam, Arabic and Roman alphabet Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. M. Holmes: "Avicennia officinalis Linn. Verbenaceae 125"

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

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Wellcome Collection 15950i

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