Green Gram
Mung Bean, Phaseolus mungo

Green Gram
Mung Bean, Phaseolus mungo

Mung bean plant

This image is a woodcut illustration of a mung bean plant found in Petrus de Crescentius' "Ruralia Commoda." The image is found in Book 3 of the volume ("Agriculture of Cereals and Building of a Granary") in a section entitled "Of Fieldwork and its Products". The volume was intended to provide images and instructions in horticulture and agriculture to European audiences.

Anonymous Artist

"Ruralia Commoda"
Image located via Arstor Digital Library

Likely Peter Drach of Speyer (Germany)
Artstor Digital Library

1490-1495

Petrus de Crescentiis, author of the volume in which the image is published.

Carolyn Allain

Rights to the image held by Artstor Collections. Image is open to the public for non-commercial uses.

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The image is a woodcut illustration appearing in a book. Published here as a digital image of dimensions 2410x3072 pixels.

Latin

Woodcut Illustration

The image is an illustration of a mung bean plant meant for educational purposes for a fifteenth century agricultural European audience.

Fifteen century agricultural Europe.

Woodcut illustration on paper

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