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Four Books: On the Nature and Virtues of the Plants and Animals That Are Accepted in Use in Medicine in New Spain, Mexico (Quatro libros: De la naturaleza, y virtudes de las plantas, y animales que estan recevidos en el uso de medicina en la Nueva España)

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TitleFour Books: On the Nature and Virtues of the Plants and Animals That Are Accepted in Use in Medicine in New Spain, Mexico (Quatro libros: De la naturaleza, y virtudes de las plantas, y animales que estan recevidos en el uso de medicina en la Nueva España)
Creator nameXiménez, Francisco
Creator nationality/cultureSpanish
Creator roleAuthor/Writer/Publisher
Creation date1615
Object typeBook/Manuscript
MaterialsUnknown
LocationHuntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
https:/­/­catalog.huntington.org/­record=b1271897
Accession number9197
SubjectsNatural history--MexicoMedicinal plantsIllustration of books--17th centuryNatural history--Latin America
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Chapter 1: Rewriting the Book of Nature
Daniela Bleichmar
Description: Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin
Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin
~When the French writer André Thevet in 1557 published an account of the voyage he had taken to Brazil two years earlier, his printer worried that readers would find much in the text hard to believe. Might they not reasonably doubt the veracity of...
Author
Daniela Bleichmar
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2017 by The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Related print edition pages: pp.1-43
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00268.002
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21536&redirecttoanchor=68397
Chapter subject tags:Natural history--Latin AmericaThevet, André, 1502-1590Visual culture--Latin AmericaIndigenous peoples--South AmericaSouth America--Discovery and ExplorationColumbus, ChristopherPictorial maps--Latin America--16th centuryPrints, Netherlandish--16th centuryBotanical illustration--Latin America--16th centuryTraditional medicine--Latin America--16th centuryCódice florentinoIndigenous peoples--Latin America

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Description: Frontispiece to Francisco Hernández, Treasure of the Medical Things of New...
Frontispiece to Francisco Hernández, Treasure of the Medical Things of New Spain (Rerum medicarum Novae Hispaniae thesaurus)
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 15
Creator roleAuthor/Writer/Publisher
Creation date1651
Object typeBook/Manuscript
MaterialsEngraving
LocationHuntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1272192
Accession number34588
Frontispiece to Francisco...
Frontispiece to Francisco Hernández, Treasure of the Medical Things of New Spain (Rerum medicarum Novae Hispaniae thesaurus)
Description: Entries for Macpalxochi Quahuitl, Mamaztlacotl, and Matlal Xochitl
Entries for Macpalxochi Quahuitl, Mamaztlacotl, and Matlal Xochitl
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 15
Creator roleAuthor/Writer/Publisher
Creation date1651
Object typeBook/Manuscript
MaterialsWoodcut
LocationHuntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1272192
Accession number34588
Entries for Macpalxochi Quahuitl,...
Entries for Macpalxochi Quahuitl, Mamaztlacotl, and Matlal Xochitl
Description: Page from a copy of an Aztec Herbal
Page from a copy of an Aztec Herbal
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 15
Creator nationality/cultureItalian
Creator roleAuthor/Writer/Publisher
Creation date1626
Object typeBook/Manuscript
MaterialsWatercolor and bodycolor over black chalk
LocationRoyal Collection, United Kingdom
https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/1/collection/927905/page-from-a-copy-of-an-aztec-herbal
Accession numberRCIN 927905
Page from a copy of an Aztec Herbal
Page from a copy of an Aztec Herbal
Description: Passionflower
Passionflower
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 15
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1625
Object typePrint
MaterialsEngraving
LocationHuntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1160101
Accession number378065
Passionflower
Passionflower
Description: Comparison of two depictions of the passionflower
Comparison of two depictions of the passionflower
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 15
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1629
Object typePrint
MaterialsWoodcuts
LocationHuntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1502752
Accession number14065
Comparison of two depictions of the...
Comparison of two depictions of the passionflower
Description: Frontispiece
Frontispiece
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 15
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1648
Object typePrint
MaterialsCopperplate engraving
LocationGetty Research Institute, Los Angeles
Accession numberQH117 .P67
Frontispiece
Frontispiece
Description: On the Cacaua Quahuitl (De Cacaua Quahuitl)
On the Cacaua Quahuitl (De Cacaua Quahuitl)
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 15
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1651
Object typePrint
MaterialsWoodcut
LocationHuntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1272192
Accession number34588
On the Cacaua Quahuitl (De Cacaua...
On the Cacaua Quahuitl (De Cacaua Quahuitl)
Description: Cacao
Cacao
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 15
Creator nameVandergucht, Michael
Creator nationality/cultureFlemish
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1707–1725
Object typePrint
MaterialsEngraving
LocationHuntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1659109
Accession number95867
Cacao
Cacao
Description: The Cacao Tree
The Cacao Tree
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 15
Creator name (description)Circle of Mark Catesby
Creator nationality/cultureBritish
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1729–1747
Object typePainting
MaterialsWatercolor and gouache heightened with gum arabic, over graphite on vellum
LocationRoyal Collection, United Kingdom
https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/1/collection/926072/the-cacao-tree
Accession numberRCIN 926072
The Cacao Tree
The Cacao Tree
Description: Cochineal insect
Cochineal insect
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 15
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1729
Object typePrint
MaterialsEngraving
LocationHuntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1800350
Accession number721627
Cochineal insect
Cochineal insect
Description: Cochineal cultivation in Mexico and microscopic studies of the insect
Cochineal cultivation in Mexico and microscopic studies of the insect
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 15
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1760–1763
Object typePrint
MaterialsEtching with watercolor (hand coloring)
LocationHuntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1027255
Accession number482156
Cochineal cultivation in Mexico and...
Cochineal cultivation in Mexico and microscopic studies of the insect
Description: Indian man harvesting cochineal
Indian man harvesting cochineal
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 15
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1777
Object typePainting
MaterialsWatercolor and ink on vellum
LocationNewberry Library, Chicago
https:/­/­i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/­permalink/­01CARLI_NBY/­i5mcb2/­alma991216558805867
Accession numberVAULT Ayer MS 1031, plate 7
Indian man harvesting cochineal
Indian man harvesting cochineal
Description: Cochineal insect and cultivation
Cochineal insect and cultivation
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 15
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1795
Object typePrint
MaterialsEngraving
LocationHuntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1452015
Accession number624866
Cochineal insect and cultivation
Cochineal insect and cultivation
Description: Description of the Sacrifices That the Indians Inhumanly Perpetrated in the New...
Description of the Sacrifices That the Indians Inhumanly Perpetrated in the New World of the Indies, Principally in Mexico (Tipus sacrificiorum que in maniter Indi faciebant in Novo Indiarum orbe precipue in Mexico)
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 15
Creator nameValadés, Diego
Creator nationality/cultureMexican
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1579
Object typePrint
MaterialsEngraving
LocationGetty Research Institute, Los Angeles
Accession numberBV4217.V34 157
Description of the Sacrifices That the...
Description of the Sacrifices That the Indians Inhumanly Perpetrated in the New World of the Indies, Principally in Mexico
Description: Pineapple
Pineapple
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 15
Creator nameOviedo y Valdes
Creator nationality/cultureSpanish
Creator roleDraftsman
Creation date1539–1548
Object typeDrawing
MaterialsPen and ink on paper
LocationHuntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll14/id/4182
Accession numbermssHM 177
Pineapple
Pineapple
Description: Pineapple
Pineapple
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 15
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Creation date1535
Object typePrint
MaterialsWoodcut
LocationHuntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1533525
Accession number55597
Pineapple
Pineapple
Description: Impersonator of Huitzilopochtli and celebrants adorned with flowers
Impersonator of Huitzilopochtli and celebrants adorned with flowers
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 15
Creator roleAuthor/Writer/Publisher
Creation datec. 1577
Object typeBook/Manuscript
MaterialsInk and color on European paper
LocationMedicean-Laurentian Library, Florence
Accession numberMs. Med. Laur. Palat. 118, c. 114v
Impersonator of Huitzilopochtli and...
Impersonator of Huitzilopochtli and celebrants adorned with flowers
Description: Frontispiece to Theodor de Bry’s edition of Girolamo Benzoni’s La...
Frontispiece to Theodor de Bry’s edition of Girolamo Benzoni’s La historia del Mondo Nuovo
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 15
Creator roleAuthor/Writer/Publisher
Creation date1594
Object typeBook/Manuscript
MaterialsEngraving
LocationHuntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1149656
Accession number122202
Frontispiece to Theodor de Bry’s...
Frontispiece to Theodor de Bry’s edition of Girolamo Benzoni’s La historia del Mondo Nuovo
Description: Depiction of indigenous rite with dance and tobacco smoking
Depiction of indigenous rite with dance and tobacco smoking
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 15
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1592
Object typePrint
MaterialsEngraving
LocationHuntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1149648
Accession number70570
Depiction of indigenous rite with dance...
Depiction of indigenous rite with dance and tobacco smoking
Description: Depiction of tobacco in the title page to the second part of Nicolás Monardes
Depiction of tobacco in the title page to the second part of Nicolás Monardes
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 15
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1574
Object typePrint
MaterialsWoodcut
LocationHuntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1556452
Accession number5300
Depiction of tobacco in the title page...
Depiction of tobacco in the title page to the second part of Nicolás Monardes
Description: The Flower of Mechoacan
The Flower of Mechoacan
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 15
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1577
Object typePrint
MaterialsWoodcut
LocationHuntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1505122
Accession number3446
The Flower of Mechoacan
The Flower of Mechoacan
Description: Pepper and peppers
Pepper and peppers
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 15
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1605
Object typePrint
MaterialsWoodcut
LocationHuntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1025427
Accession number486600
Pepper and peppers
Pepper and peppers
Description: The Way in Which Physicians Treat the Ill (Modo che tengono i medici nel medicare...
The Way in Which Physicians Treat the Ill (Modo che tengono i medici nel medicare gl’infermi)
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 15
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1565
Object typePrint
MaterialsWoodcut
LocationHuntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1619500
Accession number86897
The Way in Which Physicians Treat the...
The Way in Which Physicians Treat the Ill (Modo che tengono i medici nel medicare gl’infermi)
Description: Tobacco and smoking head
Tobacco and smoking head
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 15
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1570
Object typePrint
MaterialsWoodcut
LocationHuntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1502867
Accession number315062
Tobacco and smoking head
Tobacco and smoking head

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