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Techniques and Reception of Prints in Central and Eastern Europe (15th–18th c.)
Things – T51658

Monkshood? A fictious plant? (Aconitum primum or Aconitum pardalianches)

In Pedanius Dioscorides, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Petri Andreae Matthioli medici Senensis Commentarii, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, de medica materia. Adiectis quam plurimis plantarum & animalium imaginibus, eodem authore (var. B), Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi (printer), 1554 (Vienna, ÖNB), p. 479

p. 479 (464 of 575 in-Urus figures)
p. 477
p. 479
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  • Venice production place : 1554
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Aconitum primum (Valgrisi). Part of Set of plants for Mattioli's works (Valgrisi)

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Dioscorides (Natural history)

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Aconitum

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Cf. Candice Delisle, The letter: private text or public place? The Mattioli-Gesner controversy about the aconitum primum Gesnerus 2004;61(3-4):161-76; Sachiko Kusukawa, Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany, Chicago University Press, 2012, p. 168

Created by

  • Wojciech Milej (2023-08-28 09:56)

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  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec; Wojciech Milej; Anna Suchecka

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  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2024-02-05 23:15)