COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
07138
Record number:
07138-145
JCB call number:
B651 H557n / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[top] [De To?ancuit Laxcolli, seu Intestinis Tuccae Talpaeue Indica.] [bottom] [De Chicallotl, seu spina. Papauere spinoso.]
Place image published:
[Rome]
Image publisher:
[Vitale Mascardi]
Image date:
[1651]
Image function:
illustration; p. 215
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
10.9 cm. (top), 11.6 cm. (bottom)
Image dimension width:
5.9 cm. (top), 6 cm. (bottom)
Page dimension height:
33.1 cm.
Page dimension width:
21.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
[top] To?ancuit laxcolli plant with its roots, leaves, and flowers. Includes details of leaf and branch. [bottom] Chicallotl plant with its roots, leaves, flowers, and seed pod. Includes details of leaf, flower, and pod.
Source creator:
Hern?ndez, Francisco, 1517-1587
Source Title:
Nova plantarum, animalium et mineralium mexicanorum historia ...
Source place of publication:
Romae [Rome]
Source publisher:
Sumptibus Blasij Deuersini, & Zanobij Masotti Bibliopolarum. Typis Vitalis Mascardi
Source date:
MDCLI [1651]
notes:
Chicallotl has been identified as Argemone ochroleuca, also known as chicalote, Mexican poppy or prickly poppy. It has not been possible to identify the to?ancuit laxcolli plant. Hern?ndez was an expert on medicinal botany who became personal physician to King Philip II of Spain. In 1571 he left for Mexico and the Philippines where he collected specimens for seven years. Three indigenous artists accompanied him. Hern?ndez linked each plant with one or more of the humors of the body. Image title from chapter title.
Time Period:
1651-1700
References:
Torkelson, A.R. The cross name index to medicinal plants, p. 779.
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1971.
Owner and copyright:
?John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Natural history--Mexico
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