Rylands Collection: Assorted irises (1)

Image Number: JRL15050817
Reference Number: Medical (pre-1701) 1829
Image Title: Assorted irises (1)
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: 175
Description: Illustrated page from an English herbal, showing Iris bulbosa latifolia prima Clusis [Clusius his first great bulbous Flowerdeluce], Iris bulbosa maior cerulea siue Anglica [The great blew or English bulbous Flowerdeluce], Iris bulbosa maior purpurea Variegata [The great purple Stript bulbous Flowerdeluce], Iris bulbosa augustifolia maior alba [The greater white narrow leafed bulbous Flowerdeluce], Iris bulbous augustifolia versicolor [The party coloured narrow leafed bulbous Flowerdeluce], Iris bulbosa augustifolia Africana [The purple African bulbous narrow leafed Flowerdeluce]
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
Notes: Imprint from colophon
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 2015-05-28