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  • Pietro Andrea Mattioli. Woodcut.
  • Pietro Andrea Mattioli. Engraving.
  • Pietro Andrea Mattioli. Woodcut, 1604.
  • Pietro Andrea Mattioli. Line engraving, 1688.
  • Pietro Andrea Mattioli. Stipple engraving by A. Tardieu.
  • Pietro Andrea Mattioli. Line engraving attributed to D. Custos.
  • Pietro Andrea Mattioli. Line engraving by C. Faucci after L. Feliciati.
  • Pietro Andrea Mattioli. Line engraving by F. Allegrini, 1764, after L. Feliciati.
  • Pietro Andrea Mattioli. Line engraving by T. de Bry after C. Papi dell'Altissimo.
  • Pietro Andrea Mattioli. Line engraving by N. de Larmessin, 1682, after C. Papi dell'Altissimo.
  • Pietro Andrea Mattioli. Line engraving by P. Galle, 1572, after C. de Papi dell'Altissimo.
  • Matthiola incana (L.)W.T.Aiton Brassicaceae Distribution: The genus name commemorates Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1500/1–77), physician and botanist, whose name is Latinised to Matthiolus.. Incana means hoary or grey, referring to the colour of the leaves. Mattioli's commentaries on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides were hugely popular. Matthiola incana was first described by Linnaeus as Cheiranthus incanus, being changed to Matthiola by William Aiton, at Kew, in 1812. It is in the cabbage family. Commercial seed packets contain a mixture of single and double forms. The latter are sterile, but selective breeding has increased the proportion of double forms from the seed of single forms to as much as 80%. ‘Ten week stocks’ are popular garden annuals, flowering in the year of sowing, whereas ‘Brompton stocks’ (another variety of M. incana) are biennials, flowering the following year. Gerard (1633), called them Stocke Gillofloure or Leucoium, and notes the white and purple forms, singles and doubles. About their medicinal value he writes ‘not used in Physicke except among certain Empiricks and Quacksalvers, about love and lust matters, which for modestie I omit’. The thought of a member of the cabbage family being an aphrodisiac might encourage the gullible to take more seriously the government’s plea to eat five portions of vegetable/fruit per day. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Petri Andreæ Matthioli Senensis medici, Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de medica materia / iam denuo ab ipso autore recogniti et locis plus mille aucti. Adiectis magnis, ac nouis plantarum, ac animalium iconibus, supra priores editiones longè pluribus, ad viuum delineatis. Accesserunt quoque ad margines græci contextus quàm plurimi, ex antiquissimis codicibus desumpti, qui Dioscoridis ipsius deprauatam lectionem restituunt. Cum locupletissimis indicbus.
  • Petri Andreæ Matthioli Senensis medici, Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de medica materia / iam denuo ab ipso autore recogniti et locis plus mille aucti. Adiectis magnis, ac nouis plantarum, ac animalium iconibus, supra priores editiones longè pluribus, ad viuum delineatis. Accesserunt quoque ad margines græci contextus quàm plurimi, ex antiquissimis codicibus desumpti, qui Dioscoridis ipsius deprauatam lectionem restituunt. Cum locupletissimis indicbus.
  • Libri cinque della historia, et materia medicinale / tradotti in lingua volgare italiana da M. Pietro Andrea Matthiolo ... con amplissimi discorsi, et comenti, et dottissimi annotationi, et censure.
  • Petri Andreae Matthioli medici Senensis Commentarii, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, de medica materia. Adiectis quàm plurimis plantarum & animalium imaginibus, eodem authore. Cum Pont. maximi, cæsareæ maiestatis, christianiss. galliarum regis, ac illustriss. Senatus Veneti, gratia & priuilegio.
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  • I discorsi ... nelli sei libri di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo della materia medicinale / Hora di nuovo dal suo istesso autore ricorretti, ed ... aumentati.