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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
07138
Record number:
07138-115
JCB call number:
B651 H557n / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[De Çenanam Tezcoquensi, seu Matre spicae Maizij.]
Place image published:
[Rome]
Image publisher:
[Vitale Mascardi]
Image date:
1651
Image function:
illustration; p. 185
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
12 cm.
Image dimension width:
6.8 cm.
Page dimension height:
33.1 cm.
Page dimension width:
21.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Branch of the çenanam tezcoquensi plant with its leaves and flowers. Includes detail of its fruit (?) and silk.
Source creator:
Hernández, 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:
1651
notes:
This may be a species of Zea from which Zea mays mays or corn [maize] derives, or of its related grass, Tripsacum.Hernández 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. Hernández linked each plant with one or more of the humors of the body.Image title from chapter title.
Time Period:
1651-1700
References:
Fuente, Beatriz de la and L.S. Cicero. La pintura mural prehispánica en México, Universidad Nacional de Mexico, p. 119.
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:
Botany--Mexico
Subject headings:
Natural history--Mexico
Subject headings:
Medicinal plants
Subject headings:
Corn

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