Details

Subjects:

Materia medica -- Early works to 1800.
Materia medica.
Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.
Botany, Medical.
Botany -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800.
Botany.

Form/Genre:

Facsimiles.
Fragments (object portions)
Herbals (reference sources)
Watercolors (paintings)
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Pictorial works.
Illustrated works.

Language:

Latin.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.
text file

Biography/History:

Venetian artist.

Summary:

Leaf from an illustrated herbal on paper in the Dioscorides tradition with papyrus and fern depicted on the recto and clivia or iris on the verso, with notes in multiple hands. Illustrated in watercolor, probably in Venice or Belluno, circa 1415.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on 13 September 2013).
Dimensions of original manuscript: 300 x 182 mm.
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2013. Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Jörn Günther, cat. 30, no. 16, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 102 (LJS 475).

Cited as:

LJS 475

Contributor:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page