1 Images of Botanical and Horticultural Illustrations Antiquity Herbal of Dioscorides Drawings from the 5th century Vigna sinesis (cowpea) 512 CE. Source: Arber (1912). Ferula, (Codex Vindoboensis, Juliana Ani- cia, 512 CE). Source: Arber (1912). Lady’s bedstraw (Galium), Cranesbill (Erodium), and Geranium, 7th century. Source: Raphael (1979). Winter Cherry (Physalis) and Mulleins (Verbas- cum). Codex Neopolitanus, 7th century. Source: Raphael (1979).
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Images of Botanical and Horticultural IllustrationsAntiquity
Herbal of DioscoridesDrawings from the 5th century
Wild strawberry, Jacques Le Moyne de Morques (1533–1588) water color.
Borage (Borago officina-lis). Jacques Le Moyne de Morques (1533–1588) water color.
Herbal and Bestiary, England (1510–1520) foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) and fennel (Faeniculum vulgare).
Italian translation of Serapion the younger, 800 CE, 1390–1400. Anonymous artist. grape (Vitis vinifera).
Pfl anzenbuch, Charlemagne and carline thistle (Carlina acaulis). An angel dispatched by God shoots an arrow into the plant to heal the king of plague.
12th century Anglo-Norman herbal (Apuleis Platonicus) Artemesia.
Corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas). Beneditto Rinio, Liber de Simplicibus 1419.
Hand Illustrated Herbal Manuscripts
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Ornithogalum umbella-tum, star-of-Bethlehem, and other plants.
Bush cranberry, Viburam opulus.Coix lacryma-jobe (job’s tears)
Madonna lily (Lilium candidum).
Dyers greenwood (Genista tinctorea) and oak (Quercus robur).
Theoretical basis of ramifi cation.
Skull and onions. Salvia offi cinalis (Nature painting by undercoating leaf with carbon coating).
Leonardo de Vinci (1452–1519)
Comparison of peach seed germination and vascularization of heart and liver.
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Sunflower, Flos solis major. The greater Sun fl oure. Gerard 1633.
Sunfl ower, Flos solis minor. The lesser Sunne fl oure. Ge-rard 1633.