Mango (Mangifera indica L.): branch with flowers, fruit and leaves, cross-section of fruit and flower. Coloured line engraving.

[Amsterdam], [1683]

1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 34.3 x 43.7 cm

Maù. Latin. ... Malab. Ambò. ... Bram. ... Arab. Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. M. Holmes: "Mangifera indica L. N.O. 53" Title transcribed in Nagari, Malayalam, Arabic and Roman alphabet

See further: K.S. Manilal (ed.), Botany and history of Hortus Malabaricus, Rotterdam, 1980, ch. 2 by M. Fournier, pp. 6-21

J. Heniger, Hendrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakestein (1636-1691) and Hortus Malabaricus, Rotterdam, 1986

Wellcome Collection 15796i