Museum Plantin-Moretus Online Catalogue

Object number
MPM.HB.04184
Title
- Black garlic, broad-leaved leek or broadleaf garlic [Allium nigrum]
Production date
1574
Description
Almost identical woodcut of the same plant: MPM.HB.07831
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. 467 (Moly Indicum)
- Matthias de L'Obel, Plantarum, seu Stirpium historia ... Cui annexum est adversariorum volumen, 1576, p. 83 (Caucafon, Moly Indicum vocatum)