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Lot 17
Anonymous Italian artist
Two illustrations of camomile, on a leaf from a Herbal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper [Italy, 15th century]
Closed13 July 2022
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Anonymous Italian artist
Two illustrations of camomile, on a leaf from a Herbal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper [Italy, 15th century]
A delicate, beguiling study of camomile on a leaf from a medieval Italian Herbal, with an accompanying description of the medical virtues of the plant.
290 x 193mm. The verso with an illustration of Physalis alkekengi [Chinese lantern] and five lines of text (repaired loss to the lower margin of the leaf, repaired split at upper right, cropped, remnants of supports).
The accompanying text on this leaf from a Herbal – a medieval encyclopaedia of plants – gives the properties of camomile as relaxation and the quieting of the brain; it denotes the second of the two species depicted here as ‘stinking camomile’. A description of the Chinese lantern plant on the verso notes that its seeds can be used to stimulate the production of urine. Our text does not definitely correspond to any known exemplars, but is likely derived from one of the widely-circulated works on the virtues, qualities and uses of medicinal herbs, many of which were translated from Arabic into Latin.
Two illustrations of camomile, on a leaf from a Herbal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper [Italy, 15th century]
A delicate, beguiling study of camomile on a leaf from a medieval Italian Herbal, with an accompanying description of the medical virtues of the plant.
290 x 193mm. The verso with an illustration of Physalis alkekengi [Chinese lantern] and five lines of text (repaired loss to the lower margin of the leaf, repaired split at upper right, cropped, remnants of supports).
The accompanying text on this leaf from a Herbal – a medieval encyclopaedia of plants – gives the properties of camomile as relaxation and the quieting of the brain; it denotes the second of the two species depicted here as ‘stinking camomile’. A description of the Chinese lantern plant on the verso notes that its seeds can be used to stimulate the production of urine. Our text does not definitely correspond to any known exemplars, but is likely derived from one of the widely-circulated works on the virtues, qualities and uses of medicinal herbs, many of which were translated from Arabic into Latin.
Anonymous Italian artist
Two illustrations of camomile, on a leaf from a Herbal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper [Italy, 15th century]
A delicate, beguiling study of camomile on a leaf from a medieval Italian Herbal, with an accompanying description of the medical virtues of the plant.
290 x 193mm. The verso with an illustration of Physalis alkekengi [Chinese lantern] and five lines of text (repaired loss to the lower margin of the leaf, repaired split at upper right, cropped, remnants of supports).
The accompanying text on this leaf from a Herbal – a medieval encyclopaedia of plants – gives the properties of camomile as relaxation and the quieting of the brain; it denotes the second of the two species depicted here as ‘stinking camomile’. A description of the Chinese lantern plant on the verso notes that its seeds can be used to stimulate the production of urine. Our text does not definitely correspond to any known exemplars, but is likely derived from one of the widely-circulated works on the virtues, qualities and uses of medicinal herbs, many of which were translated from Arabic into Latin.
Two illustrations of camomile, on a leaf from a Herbal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper [Italy, 15th century]
A delicate, beguiling study of camomile on a leaf from a medieval Italian Herbal, with an accompanying description of the medical virtues of the plant.
290 x 193mm. The verso with an illustration of Physalis alkekengi [Chinese lantern] and five lines of text (repaired loss to the lower margin of the leaf, repaired split at upper right, cropped, remnants of supports).
The accompanying text on this leaf from a Herbal – a medieval encyclopaedia of plants – gives the properties of camomile as relaxation and the quieting of the brain; it denotes the second of the two species depicted here as ‘stinking camomile’. A description of the Chinese lantern plant on the verso notes that its seeds can be used to stimulate the production of urine. Our text does not definitely correspond to any known exemplars, but is likely derived from one of the widely-circulated works on the virtues, qualities and uses of medicinal herbs, many of which were translated from Arabic into Latin.
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