Tibetan plant manuscript

Incipit tractatus de virtutibus herbarum.

Interior of a pharmacy, with four figures. Oil painting by Jos. van Brée, 1860.

Commentarii secundo aucti, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de medica materia / Adjectis quam plurimis plantarum, et animalium imaginibus quae in priore editione non habentur, eodem authore. His accessit ejusdem apologia adversus Amathum Lusitanum, quin et censura in ejusdem enarrationes.

Ming herbal (painting): Chinese pulsatilla [root]

Those who named the plants: Adam, Solomon, Theophrastus, and Dioscorides. Oil paintings.

Ambrosia altera.

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