Museum Plantin-Moretus Online Catalogue

Object number
MPM.HB.04140
Title
- English iris [Iris latifolia, syn. Iris xiphioides]
Production date
1574
Description
Almost identical woodcut of the same plant: MPM.HB.07841
Object name
woodblock (printing matrix)
Material
wood (plant material)
Technique
woodcut (printing process)
Acquisition date
1876-04-20
Acquisition method
purchase - Moretus, Edward
Printed in
- Rembert Dodoens, Purgantium aliarumque eo facientium, tum et radicum, convolvulorum ac deleteriarum herbarum historiae libri IIII, 1574, p. 404 (Iris bulbosa Lusitanica)
- Carolus Clusius, Rariorum aliquot stirpium per Hispanias observatarum historia, libris duobus expressa, 1576, p. 275 (Iris bulbosa angustifolia flore vario II)
- Matthias de L'Obel, Plantarum, seu Stirpium historia ... Cui annexum est adversariorum volumen, 1576, p. 48 (Hyacinthus, Iris bulbosa angustifolia flore vario)