PIETRO ANDREA MATTIOLI: Meon – Botanical Woodcut (1565)
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Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1501-1578)
Meon – Meum athamanticum – Spignel
Original 16th-century hand-coloured woodblock engraving (xylography) by Pietro Andrea Mattioli. Name of the plant is engraved in Latin above the picture. Description of the plant and its use engraved in Latin below the picture.
This early botanical woodcut is from the Latin edition of Mattioli’s book on medical botany Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de materia medica published in Venice 1565 by Vincenzo Valgrisi. The work contained over 900 woodcuts of medical plants and herbs, animals and distillation.
- Condition: The engraving is framed in a passepartout and is in good condition. Bright colours.
- Sheet dimensions: 34 x 23 cm.
Suomeksi:
Alkuperäinen 1500-luvun kasviaiheinen käsinväritetty puupiirros. Tekijänä Pietro Andrea Mattioli. Kasvin nimi ja käyttötarkoitus kaiverrettu latinaksi.
- Kunto: Pahvikehys. Siisti kunto, kirkas väritys.
- Mitat: 34 x 23 cm
På svenska:
Original träsnitt från 1500-talet. Handkolorerat gravyr av Pietro Andrea Mattioli. Växtens namn är graverat på latin ovanför bilden. Beskrivning av växten och dess användning är graverad på latin under bilden.
- Skick: Inramad med passepartout. Gott skick, friska färger.
- Mått: 34 x 23 cm.
Mattioli (Matthioli or Matthiolus) was an Italian doctor and botanist who was born in Siena, brought up in Venice and lived most of his life in Prague as a physician to the Grand Dukes. His herbal Commentarii in Sex Libros Pedacii Dioscoridis was published first in Italian, then Latin and other languages.
