Spycket, Nicolaus

Taumaturgus botanicus in quo rariorum arborum, arbustorum, et plantarum descriptiones et icones ex melioribus excerptae autoribus exhibentur. Collegit eas auctor anno domini millesimo, septingentesimo sexagesimo quarto, ultimamque manum apposuit Chimaci prima die mensis augusti dicti anni. Illustrated with 78 'Iconismi' each containing four water-colour drawings of plants, etc. Pasted on the first blank leaf is a cut-down armorial book-plate of Nicolaus Spycket, who is presumably the compiler of the MS. Produced in Chimay.

1764

1 volume 60 ll. (first & last bl.) + pp. xii + 338 + 10 ll. 4to. 21 × 161/2 cm. Modern half-morocco binding.

Purchased 1910.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).