EditorialSt. Benedict's thistle, Cnicus benedicta, native to the Mediterranean. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medic...
EditorialSaint Anastasia Enthroned, Saint Petronilla, Abbess Benedicta with a Crosier, and Abbess Bridgit with a Crosier; Abbess Gertrude with a Crosier. Date/Period: Ca. 1300. Folio. Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment. Height: 264 mm (10.39 in...
EditorialSaint Anastasia Enthroned, Saint Petronilla, Abbess Benedicta with a Crosier, and Abbess Bridgit with a Crosier; Abbess Gertrude with a Crosier. Date/Period: Ca. 1300. Folio. Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment. Height: 264 mm (10.39 in...
Editorial'Gariofilata.' Possibly clove root (radix caryophyllata) or Herba Benedicta, or Blessed Herb, or Avens (Geum Urbanum). Coloured drawings of plants, copied from nature in the Roman States, by Gerardo Cibo. Vol. I. Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Physician, of S...
EditorialSaint Anastasia Enthroned, Saint Petronilla, Abbess Benedicta with a Crosier, and Abbess Bridgit with a Crosier; Abbess Gertrude with a Crosier. Date/Period: Ca. 1300. Folio. Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment. Height: 264 mm (10.39 in...
EditorialBenedicta tu in Mulieribus, from Christian and Profane Allegories, Engraving, sheet: 10 5/16 x 7 5/16 in. (26.2 x 18.5 cm), Prints, Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish, M?hlbracht 1558?1617 Haarlem).
EditorialSt. Benedict's thistle, Centaurea benedicta (Cnicus benedictus). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialSaint Anastasia Enthroned, Saint Petronilla, Abbess Benedicta with a Crosier, Abbess Bridget with a Crosier, Abbess Gertrude with a Crosier; Unknown; France, Northeastern France, Europe; about 1300; Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment; Leaf...
EditorialSt. Benedict's thistle, Cnicus benedicta, native to the Mediterranean. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medic...
EditorialLLULL, Ramon (Palma de Mallorca, h.1235-m.h.1315) "BENEDICTA TU IN MULIERI" (siglo XIII). Portada del libro traducida al espa?ol. Editado en Palma en 1739.