Hortus Indicus Malabaricus, continens regni Malabarici apud Indos cereberrimi omnis generis plantas rariores, Latinas, Malabaricis, Arabicis, & Bramanum characteribus nominibusque expressas, unà cum floribus, fructibus & feminibus, naturali magnitudine à peritissimis pictoribus delineatas, & ad vivum exhibitas. Addita insuper accuratâ earundem descriptione, quâ colores, odores, sapores, facultates, & praecipuae in medicinâ vires exactissimè demonstrantur. Adornatus per Henricum van Rheede, van Draakenstein, nuperrimè Malabarici Regni Gubernatorem, ... et Johannem Casearium, ecclesiast. in Cochin. Notis adauxit, & commentariis illustravit Arnoldus Syen, Medicinae & Botanices in Academia Lugduno-Batava Professor.
Hendrik van Reede tot Drakestein (1637-1691)
Category
Books
Date
1678 - 1693
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3034257
Summary
Bibliographic description
12 v. : ill., facsims., port. ; fol. Running number: 5708. Vol. 1 only. Shelved contiguously and uniform with vols. 2-12 in the next press. Without portrait. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. 13. vol." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: seventeenth-century full gold-tooled calf; gilt double fillet border; panel of two gilt double fillets with gilt crown cornerpiece stamps [this crown motif is possibly that of a member of the House of Nassau]; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine, with floral stamp, fillet and roll-tooling; brown goatskin label with gilt title and vol. number on spine. Red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Hendrik van Reede tot Drakestein (1637-1691), author Johannes Casearius (c.1642-1677), editor Arnoldus Seyen (1640-1678), editor Johannes Commelin (1629-1692), editor Johannes Munniks (1652-1711), editor Theodoor Jansson ab Almeloveen (1657 - 1712), editor Abraham van Poot (b.c.617), editor Gonsales Appelman (1666-1689), engraver (printmaker) Antony Jakob Goedkint, artist Matthaeus a S. Joseph (1617-1691), artist Bastiaen Stopendael (1637-1693), engraver (printmaker)