Jasmine (Jasminum undulatum Willd.): branch with flowers and fruit, separate flowers, fruit and sectioned fruit with seeds. Coloured line engraving.

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[1686]
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16280i
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Jasmine (Jasminum undulatum Willd.): branch with flowers and fruit, separate flowers, fruit and sectioned fruit with seeds. Coloured line engraving. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Oil from flowers of Jasmine (Malatti oil) is used in perfumery

Publication/Creation

[Amsterdam], [1686]

Physical description

1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 33.4 x 41.0 cm

Lettering

Tsjíregam̀-Mullà Lat. ... Mal. Castúri-Mogorì ... Bra. ... Arab. Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. Holmes: "Jasminum undulatum Willd. Oleaceae 104" Title transcribed in Nagari, Malayalam, Arabic and Roman alphabet

References note

See further: K.S. Manilal (ed.), Botany and history of Hortus Malabaricus, Rotterdam, 1980, ch. 2 by M. Fournier, pp. 6-21
J. Heniger, Hendrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakestein (1636-1691) and Hortus Malabaricus, Rotterdam, 1986

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Wellcome Collection 16280i

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