Dan Gulden Appelen

Dan Gulden Appelen

herbal, botany, tomato

Inspired by the work of botanist Leonhart Fuchs, Flemish physician and botanist Rembert Dodoens published his own herbal titled Cruijdeboeck with 715 woodcut images in 1554. This image is Dodoens' representation of the red variety of the tomato. (N.B. gulden appelen = "golden apple").

Rembert Dodoens

http://caliban.mpipz.mpg.de/dodoens_3/index.html 
(an authorized reposting of the image's original availability from Library of the Rijksmuseum).

Antwerp: Jan van der Loe, 1554

1554

Library of the Rijksmuseum

See: http://library.rijksmuseum.nl/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=31855

The original of the book (a hand-colored copy, colored by Hans Liefrinck, ca. 1520-1573) was made available by the Library of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Holland. Scan by Kurt Stüber and Rob van der Hats, processing by Kurt Stüber Frank and Al-Dabbagh, December 2004. Further information: www.plantaardigheden.nl.

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Small folio. 715 woodcuts.

Flemish

Herbal

325 B 14 (call number at Library of the Rijksmuseum)

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