COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
07138
Record number:
07138-153
JCB call number:
B651 H557n / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[top] [De Tlaelpatli Tonallae, seu Medicina dysentericorum.] [bottom] [De Tlaquauhtiliz Patli, seu Venerea medicina.]
Place image published:
[Rome]
Image publisher:
[Vitale Mascardi]
Image date:
[1651]
Image function:
illustration; p. 225
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
11.8 cm. (top), 11.7 cm. (bottom)
Image dimension width:
5.3 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] Tlaelpatli tonallae plant with its roots, leaves, and flowers. [bottom] Tlaquauhtiliz patli plant with its roots and leaves. Includes detail of leaf.
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:
It has not been possible to identify either of these plants, but Tlaquauhtiliz patli or Tlaquauhtilizpatli was considered an aphrodisiac. 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
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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