COMPOUND OBJECT (4 Items)
Icones Plantes Malabaricum Item Info
- Title:
- Icones Plantes Malabaricum
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- 1694-1718
- Description:
- A manuscript produced by an as-yet unidentified physician working for the Dutch East India Company in the vicinity of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. The Latin name of this manuscript may be misleading, as the plants featured are not only from Kerala in India (then-called Malabar coast by the Dutch), but also plants from Sri Lanka. The plants are described using Malayalam, Sinhalese and Tamil names.
- Subjects:
- flora
- Collection:
- Leiden University Libraries
- External Link:
- https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/iconesplantarummalabaricum
- Source Identifier:
- BPL 126D
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Icones Plantes Malabaricum", Island of diversity,
- Reference Link:
- https://melindasusanto.github.io//dhsi-project/items/plants_039.html