EditorialBifolia from a Vita Sanctorum, or Lives of the Saints. Italian (Tuscany). Date: 1140-1160. Dimensions: 325 x 224 mm (sheet, folded). Manuscript cutting with tempera decorations and gothica textualis primitiva inscriptions in brownish-black ink, on parc...
EditorialBifolia with Scenes from the Life of Christ, 1230-1240. Germany, Lower Saxony (Diocese of Hildesheim), Braunschweig(?), 13th century. Tempera, and gold on vellum; sheet: 30.7 x 31 cm (12 1/16 x 12 3/16 in.); framed: 48.3 x 63.5 cm (19 x 25 in.); overal...
EditorialBifolia with Scenes from the Life of Christ, 1230-1240. Germany, Lower Saxony (Diocese of Hildesheim), Braunschweig(?), 13th century. Tempera, and gold on vellum; framed: 48.3 x 63.5 cm (19 x 25 in.); overall: 30.7 x 45.2 cm (12 1/16 x 17 13/16 in.); m...
EditorialBifolia from a Vita Sanctorum, or Lives of the Saints. Italian (Tuscany). Date: 1140-1160. Dimensions: 325 x 224 mm (sheet, folded). Manuscript cutting with tempera decorations and gothica textualis primitiva inscriptions in brownish-black ink, on parc...
EditorialBifolia with Scenes from the Life of Christ, 1230-1240. Germany, Lower Saxony (Diocese of Hildesheim), Braunschweig(?), 13th century. Tempera, and gold on vellum; sheet: 30.7 x 31 cm (12 1/16 x 12 3/16 in.); framed: 48.3 x 63.5 cm (19 x 25 in.); overal...
EditorialBifolia with Scenes from the Life of Christ, 1230-1240. Germany, Lower Saxony (Diocese of Hildesheim), Braunschweig(?), 13th century. Tempera, and gold on vellum; framed: 48.3 x 63.5 cm (19 x 25 in.); overall: 30.7 x 45.2 cm (12 1/16 x 17 13/16 in.); m...
EditorialBifolia from a Vita Sanctorum, or Lives of the Saints. Italian (Tuscany). Date: 1140-1160. Dimensions: 325 x 224 mm (sheet, folded). Manuscript cutting with tempera decorations and gothica textualis primitiva inscriptions in brownish-black ink, on parc...
EditorialAlpine squill or two-leaf squill, Scilla bifolia (Early-flowered squill, Scilla praecox). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after Edwin Dalton Smith from John Lindley and Robert Sweet's Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G. Willis, Lon...
EditorialSea onion or sea squill, Drimia maritima, and alpine squill, Scilla bifolia. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of i...
EditorialLesser butterfly orchid, Platanthera bifolia, fragrant orchid, Gymnadenia conopsea, and spotted orchid, Dactylorhiza fuchsii. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This...
EditorialAlpine squill or two-leaf squill, Scilla bifolia (Early-flowered squill, Scilla praecox). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after Edwin Dalton Smith from John Lindley and Robert Sweet's Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G. Willis, Lon...
EditorialSea onion or sea squill, Drimia maritima, and alpine squill, Scilla bifolia. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of i...
EditorialLesser butterfly orchid, Platanthera bifolia, fragrant orchid, Gymnadenia conopsea, and spotted orchid, Dactylorhiza fuchsii. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This...
EditorialLesser butterfly-orchid, Platanthera bifolia. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendal's German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871.
EditorialLesser butterfly-orchid, Platanthera bifolia. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialTwo-leaved squill, Scilla bifolia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smith's English Botany, London, 1791.
EditorialLesser butterfly orchis, Platanthera bifolia (Orchis bifolia). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smith's English Botany, London, 1791.