Museum Plantin-Moretus Online Catalogue

Object number
MPM.HB.06418
Title
- Chufa sedge, nut grass, yellow nutsedge, tiger nutsedge, edible galingale, water grass or earth almond [Cyperus esculentus]
Production date
1574
Description
Almost identical woodcut of the same plant: MPM.HB.07689
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. 61 (Dulcichinum)
- Matthias de L'Obel, Plantarum, seu Stirpium historia ... Cui annexum est adversariorum volumen, 1576, p. 41 (Trasi Veronensium)
- Carolus Clusius, Exoticorum libri decem: item Petri Bellonii observationes, 1605, Bellonius p. 112 (Malinathalla)