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Detail View: Rylands Collection: Assorted peonies

Image Number: 
JRL15050820
Reference Number: 
Medical (pre-1701) 1829
Image Title: 
Assorted peonies
Parent Work Title: 
Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. Or a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed up: with a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, & fruites, for meate or sause used with us, and an orchard of all sorte of fruit-bearing trees aand shrubbes fit for our land, together with the right orderinge and planting & preserving of them and their uses & vertues. Collected by John Parkinson Apothecary of London, 1629.
Creator: 
Parkinson, John, 1567-1650
Creator Role: 
Author
Creator: 
Lownes, Humphrey, -1630
Creator Role: 
Printer
Creator: 
Young, Robert, -1643
Creator Role: 
Printer
Date Created: 
1629
Publication Details: 
London: Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young
Page/Sheet: 
343
Description: 
Illustrated page from an English herbal, showing Paeonia mas cum semine [The male Peony and the seed], Paeonia foemina Byzantina [The female red Peony of Constantinople], Paeonia foemina flore pleno vulgaris [The ordinary double Peony], Paeonia flore pleno albicante [The double white Peony], Helleborus vernus atrorubente flore [The early white Ellebor with a darke red flower], Helleborus niger verus [The Christmas flower], Calceolus Maria [Our Ladies Slipper].
Keyword: 
Medical Illustration; Herbal Medicine; Herbal.
Language Code: 
eng-GB
Language: 
English
Subject: 
Medicine--History
Subject: 
Medicine
Subject: 
Herbals
Category of Material: 
Printed
Sub-Category: 
Illustrated works
Technique Used: 
Woodcut (process)
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Paper
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, UK
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
Notes: 
Imprint from colophon
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2015-05-28
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2015-09
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Academic Project Lead: 
Hannah Priest
Academic Project Lead: 
Cordelia Warr
Collection Code: 
Rylands