Hortus Indicus Malabaricus, continens regni Malabarici apud Indos cereberrimi onmis generis plantas rariores, Latinis, Malabaricis, Arabicis, et Bramanum characteribus hominibusque expressas ... addita ... descriptione, qua ... praecipuae in medicina vires ... demonstrantur / Adornatus per Henricum van Rheede, van Draakenstein [sic] et Johannem Casearium [vols. III-V, J. Munnicks, vol. VI, T.J. van Almeloveen] .... Notis adauxit et commentariis illustravit Arnoldus Syen [vols. II-XII, J. Commelinus]. [Vols. VII-XII, In ordinem redegit et Latinitate donavit Abrahamus a Poot].
- Reede tot Drakestein, Hendrik van, 1637?-1691.
- Date:
- 1678-1703
- Books
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Hortus Indicus Malabaricus. Latin
Horti Indici Malabarici
Publication/Creation
Amstelaedami : Sumptibus Johannis van Someren, et Joannis van Dyck, 1678-1703.
Physical description
12 volumes, engr. illustrations & folded plates : add. engr. t.ps., portrait, facsimiles ; (folio)
Contributors
- Reede tot Drakestein, Hendrik van, 1637?-1691.
- Commelin, Johannes, 1629-1692.
- Munniks, Johannes, 1652-1711.
- Poot, Abraham van, approximately 1617-
- Syen, Arnoldus, 1640-1678.
- Casearius, Johannes, approximately 1642-1677.
- Someren, Joannes van.
- Dyck, Jan van.
- Almeloveen, Theodoor Jansson ab, 1657-1712.
- Henrik & Dirk Boom.
Related material
Hortus Malabaricus
Notes
Title page vol. 1: copy 1 has a title page dated 1686 which essentially repeats that of vol. 6 but with "pars prima" rather than "pars sexta". Copy 2, which was used for the above description, has the original title page dated 1678. (For further details, see Warner, M.F., J. Bot. 58: 291-292. 1920.)
Title varies: Horti Indici Malabarici, Horti Malabarici
Editors and authors of notes: I. Johannes Caesarius and Arnoldus Syen; II. Johannem Caesarium and Johannes Commelinus; III-V. Joannes Munnicks and Joannes Commelinus; VI-XII. J. Commelinus and A. a Poot
Additional publishers are named in imprint statements v. 3-12: ... & Henrici & viduae Theodori Boom
Many engravings are of double folio size. (34 x 43 cm.)
The author's name in the various parts is variously spelled: Henricus van Rheede, van Draakenstein; Henricus van Reede, tot Draakestein; Henricus van Rheede, tot Draakestein; Henricus van Rhede tot Draakestein; Henricus van Rheede tot Drakestein
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References note
Pritzel (2nd) 7585
Stafleu (2nd) 9123
Exhibitions note
Exhibited in "Ayurvedic Man: Encounters with Indian medicine" at Wellcome Collection, 16 November 2017 - 8 April 2018
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