Poma Aurea

Poma Aurea

A drawing of a yellow tomato

The first representation of a tomato in Europe was found in Pietro Mattioli's Discorsi on Dioscorides' Materia Medica. This book was first published in 1544. This specific image, however, is from a later edition of this book published in German in 1590 called the Kreutterbuch. The woodcut was made by Johann Feyerabend.

Pietro Andrea Mattioli; Joachim Camerarius, Johann Feyerabend

Kreutterbuch desz hochgelehrten vnnd weitberühmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli, Jetzt widerumb mit viel schönen neuwen Figuren/ auch nützlichen Artzeneyen/ vnd andern guten stücken/ zum andern mal auss sonderm fleiss gemehret/ vnd verfertigt Durch Ioachimum Camerarium, der löblichen Reichsstatt Nürmberg Medicum, Doct. Sampt dreyen wolgeordneten nützlichen Registern/ der kreutter Lateinische vnd Teutsche Namen/ vnd dann die Artzeneyen/ darzu dieselbigen zu gebrauchen/ innhaltendt.

Gedruckt zu Franckfort am Mayn

Discorsi on Dioscorides' Materia Medica by Pietro Mattioli was published in 1544. The edition of the book from which this print comes was published in 1590.

Université de Strasbourg

{{PD-1923}} This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

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German

botanical illustration from a book

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Painting on paper

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