Find thousands of books, manuscripts, visual materials and unpublished archives from our collections, many of them with free online access.
Search for free, downloadable images taken from our library and museum collections, including paintings, illustrations, photos and more.
Circassian Tree or Red Sandalwood Tree (Adenanthera pavonina L.): branch with flowers and pods, separate opened pod, seeds and flowers. Coloured line engraving.
- Date
- [1686]
- Reference
- 16107i
- Pictures
- Online
Available online
Licence
Public Domain Mark
You can use this work for any purpose without restriction under copyright law.
Public Domain Mark (PDM) terms and conditions https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0
Credit: Circassian Tree or Red Sandalwood Tree (Adenanthera pavonina L.): branch with flowers and pods, separate opened pod, seeds and flowers. Coloured line engraving. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
Selected images from this work
About this work
Description
The Circassian Tree is also known as the Sandal Bead Tree and the Zumbic Tree. The wood (Red Sandal Wood) is used for house timbers and furniture, the bark for washing clothes and hair, the seeds as necklace beads and a decoction of the leaves for treatment of rheumatism and gout.
Publication/Creation
[Amsterdam], [1686]
Physical description
1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 33.3 x 41.6 cm
Contributors
Lettering
Mantsjadi Lat. ... Mal. Gúnsobì ... Bra. ... Arab.
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
Lettering note
Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. Holmes: "Adenanthera pavonina Linn. 57"
Title transcribed in Nagari, Malayalam, Arabic and Roman alphabet
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 16107i
Type/Technique
Languages
- Latin
- Malayalam
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores