Scientific Illustration

discardingimages:

angry birds

(aquila/eagle, psitacus/parrot, alcion/kingfisher)

Bestiary, England 15th century.

København, Kongelige Bibliotek, GkS 1633 4º, fols. 31v, 33v, 36v

(via medieval)

Cannabis from ‘Grandes Heures d’Anne de Bretagne’, Jean Bourdichon, 15th century

Thanks for the submission rougerothko!

Sorrel, Shepherd’s Purse, and White Bryony

Miniature of a brictanica, or sorrel plant; miniature of a bursa pastoris, or shepherd’s purse plant; miniature of a brionia, or white bryony plant. 

Manuscript - Egerton 747. Origin: Italy, S. (Salerno)

jothelibrarian:

Pretty medieval manuscript of the day is another dragon. From an astronomical tract, it is quite different in style to the other dragons we’ve looked at the last week or so!

This one dates from around 1460-1470, and is in the collection of the New York Public Library.

Image source: Spencer Collection MS 28. New York Public Library. Image believed to be in the public domain.

(via medieval)

heaveninawildflower:

Konrad von Megenberg  (1309–1374).

 Hand-coloured woodcut from Konrad von Megenberg (1309-1374) - “He nach volget das Puch der Natur” - Augsburg: H. Bamler, 1475 The scholar and cleric Konrad von Megenberg compiled his encyclopedic Book of Nature in the fourteenth century from a number of earlier authorities. The fifth chapter discusses 89 plant species arranged in no particular order. The woodcuts are the first printed depictions of plants presented for botanical rather than decorative purposes.

http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/Onlinexhibits/exhbtcata.html

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(via archivalia)

heaveninawildflower:

Konrad von Megenberg  (1309–1374).

 Hand-coloured woodcut from Konrad von Megenberg (1309-1374) - “He nach volget das Puch der Natur” - Augsburg: H. Bamler, 1475 The scholar and cleric Konrad von Megenberg compiled his encyclopedic Book of Nature in the fourteenth century from a number of earlier authorities. The fifth chapter discusses 89 plant species arranged in no particular order. The woodcuts are the first printed depictions of plants presented for botanical rather than decorative purposes.

http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/Onlinexhibits/exhbtcata.html

Wikimedia

medieval:

Cannabis sativa.

From the Vienna Dioscurides, 6th C.

medieval:

Cannabis, Ruta montana, Eptaphillos, Ocymum.

12th C. Herbarium.  MS. Ashmole 1462

medieval:

Adiantos, Mandragora feminea.

12th C. MS. Ashmole 1462