Hortus Collection

Papaver (Poppy), two varieties
Two varieties of Papaver (Poppy) -- Papaver flore pleno rubrum (Double Red) and Papaver Eraticum rubrum (Wild Red), drawn by Basilius Besler (1561-1629)

Hyacinth hybrid variety, Marie de Medicis, Hyacinthus orientalis. Handcoloured botanical copperplate engraving by Adam Ludwig Wirsing from Christoph Jacob Trews Hortus nitidissimis omnem per annum

History of medicine. Modern Age. Belly infaldo. Cirrhosis. W
History of medicine. Modern Age. Belly infaldo. Cirrhosis.Woodcut. Hortus Sanitatis. 14th century

Hyacinthus Orientalis (Hyacinth)
Hyacinthus Orientalis, also known as common hyacinth, garden hyacinth and Dutch hyacinth, drawn by Basilius Besler (1561-1629)

Chimonanthus praecox - Watercolour by Franz Bauer, 1789. Original Drawings for Hortus Kewensis, t.10.< br> < br> Held in the Museums Botany Library. Date: 1789

Strelitzia regina, bird of paradise
Plate 2 from Original Drawings for Hortus Kewensis by William Aiton (1731-1793). Painting by James Sowerby 1787. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

A Medieval nightmare
This hand coloured woodcut showing a human headed bird grappling a man is from Jacobus Meydenbacks Hortus Sanitatis, (1491)

History of medicine. Modern Age. Belly infaldo. Cirrhosis. W
History of medicine. Modern Age. Belly infaldo. Cirrhosis.Woodcut. Hortus Sanitatis. 14th century. Colored

A Man looking for a deer tears for being aphrodisiac. Xilografia. Hortus Sanitatis by Johannes de Cuba (1430-1503). 15th C

Operation a calculation of the gallbladder. Xilografia. Hort
Medical history. Doctor operating a calculation of the gallbladder. Xilografia. Hortus Sanitatis by Johannes de Cuba (1430-1503). 15th C

Hortus Sanitatis, Jacob Meidenbach, 1497 edition
Hortus Sanitatis title page

Calceolaria fothergillii, William Aiton, 1789
Calceolaria fothergillii taken from Hortus Kewensis or A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew by William Aiton gardner of his majesty

Apocynum

Duchess of Beauforts Hortus Siccus, vol. I, HS 131, fol. 8 (SloanernHerbarium)

Capparis spinosa, caper
Duchess of Beauforts Hortus Siccus, specimen 133: 67 (Sloane Herbarium)

De-lousing illustration
A Hortus watercolour published in 1491 which illustrates de-lousing in Hortus Sanitatis from Mediaeval Natural History

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