Margosa (Azadirachta indica A. Juss.): branch with flowers and fruit, separate clusters of flowers and fruits and sections of fruit. Coloured line engraving.
- Date:
- [1683]
- Reference:
- 15955i
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Description
Margosa is also known as neem or nim
Publication/Creation
[Amsterdam], [1683]
Physical description
1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 34.2 x 43.7 cm
Contributors
Lettering
Aria-Bepoú. lat. ... mal.
Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. M. Holmes: "Melia azadirachta Linn. 43"
Title transcribed in Malayalam 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
Reference
Wellcome Collection 15955i
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Where to find it
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