French jujube (Zizyphus jujuba Gaertn.): Branch with leaves, flowers and fruit and separate fruit and flowers. Coloured line engraving.

Date:
[1683]
Reference:
15944i
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The French jujube is also known as the Chinese date

Publication/Creation

[Amsterdam], [1683]

Physical description

1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 43.9 x 34.8 cm

Lettering

Perim-toddalì. lat. ... mal. Bóri ... bram. ... Arab. Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. M. Holmes: "Zizyphus jujuba Gaertn. Rhamnaceae 49" 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 15944i

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