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 Adriaan van Reede tot Draakestein,
Category
Books
Date
1678 - 1703
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3203004
Summary
Bibliographic description
12 v. : ill., facsims., port. ; fol. Running number: 5854. Vols. 2-12. Shelved contiguously and uniform with vol. 1 in the previous press. Without portrait. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf in vol. 1: "M. 13. vol." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript collation note in the hand of John Mitchell on front fly-leaf of vol. 6: "Tab. XXIX. & XXX. transposed". Binding: all vols. in seventeenth-century full gold-tooled calf; gold-tooling differs between vols. 2-8 and 9-12: in vols. 2-8 the covers have a double fillet border and a panel of two double fillets with crown cornerpiece stamps [this crown motif is possibly that of a member of the House of Nassau], in vols. 9-12 the covers have a double fillet border and a panel of a single and a double fillet with decorative cornerpiece stamps. Gilt roll pattern on board edges. Gold-tooled spines, with different floral stamp, fillet and roll-tooling between vols. 2-8 and 9-12. Brown goatskin label with gilt title and vol. number on spines. Red and brown sprinkled edges (vols. 2-8); blue and red sprinkled edges (vols. 9-12).
Makers and roles
Hendrik Adriaan van Reede tot Draakestein, Theodoor Jansson ab Almeloveen (1657 - 1712) Antony Jakob Goedkint Matthaeus a S. Joseph (1617-1691) Bastiaen Stopendael (1637-1693) Johannes Munniks (1652-1711) Arnoldus Seyen (1640-1678) Gonsales Appelman (1666-1689) Johannes Casearius (c.1642-1677) Abraham van Poot (b.c.617) Johannes Commelin (1629-1692)