Museum Plantin-Moretus Online Catalogue

Object number
MPM.HB.07554
Title
- Roman wormwood or small absinthe [Artemisia pontica]
Description
Almost identical woodcut of the same plant: MPM.HB.07994 (unfinished woodcut!)
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, Trium priorum de stirpium historia commentariorum imagines ad vivum expressae, 1553, p. 5 (Σανδόνικον; Santonicum, Absinthium Romanum aut Ponticum; Roomsche Alsene)
- Rembert Dodoens, Cruijdeboeck. In den welcken die gheheele historie, dat es tgheslacht, tfatsoen, naem, natuere, cracht ende werckinghe, van den cruyden ... begrepen ende verclaert es, 1554, p. vi (Santonicum; Roomsche alsene)
- Rembert Dodoens, Histoire des plantes, 1557, p. 3 (Absinthium Ponticum; Aluyne Romaine)
- Rembert Dodoens, De stirpium historia commentariorum, imagines, in duos tomos digestae, 1559, vol. 1, p. 5 (Santonicum; Roomsche alsene)
- Rembert Dodoens, Cruijdeboeck, 1563, p. iiii (Absinthium Ponticum Galeni; Roomsche alsene)