Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [top] Tlalamatl Arbor Vomitoria. [bottom] [De Chatalhuic Cassia Silvestri.]

Accession number: 
07138
Record number: 
07138-35
JCB call number: 
B651 H557n / 2-SIZE
Image title: 
[top] Tlalamatl Arbor Vomitoria. [bottom] [De Chatalhuic Cassia Silvestri.]
Place image published: 
[Rome]
Image publisher: 
[Vitale Mascardi]
Image date: 
1651
Image function: 
illustration; p. 70
Technique: 
woodcut
Image dimension height: 
12 cm. (top), 12 cm. (bottom)
Image dimension width: 
6 cm. (top), 6.4 cm. (bottom)
Page dimension height: 
33.1 cm.
Page dimension width: 
21.5 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
[top]Tlalamatl plant with its roots, leaves, and flowers. Includes detail of leaves. [bottom] Branch of the chatalhuic plant.
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: 
Tlalamatl may be Mexican giant hyssop, Agastache mexicana. Chatalhuic is probably a member of the genus Senna.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 taken 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: 
Botany--Mexico
Subject headings: 
Natural history--Mexico
Subject headings: 
Medicinal plants
Subject headings: 
Senna