EditorialCourt garden with Susanna in the bath Hortorum Viridariorumque elegantes and multiplicis formae (series title) Gardens of the minne (series title), A court garden. In the foreground you can identify Susanna, who wants to take a bath in a closed part of...
EditorialThe Archbishop of Reims preparing the holy balm. The Coronation Book of Charles V, King of France. 1365-1380. Source: Cotton Tiberius B. VIII, f.50v. Language: French.
EditorialLa Melisse des Pyrenees. Lemon balm, Melissa officinalis. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant dans les jardins de la chine, que dans c...
EditorialBalm of Gilead, Commiphora gileadensis (Amyris gileadensis). Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Main's Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835. James Main (1775-1846) was a Scottish gardener, botanist and writer.
EditorialWater horehound, Lycopus europaeus, and lemon balm, Melissa officinalis. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illus...
EditorialBastard balm, Melissa adulterina, and lesser calamint, Clinopodium nepeta. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of ill...
EditorialKing Charles V, dressed in the royal vestments kneels at the cathedral as the Archbishop of Rheims anoints the palms of his hands with the Celestial Balm and chrism, using the golden needle. The archbishop holds a golden paten in his left hand. He is a...
EditorialBas-de-page scene of two musicians lulling an aspis to sleep with music, while two others steal balm from the tree which the aspis was guarding. Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter'). England (London/Westminster or East Anglia?); between 1310 and 1320. So...
EditorialThe Archbishop of Reims preparing the holy balm. The Coronation Book of Charles V, King of France. 1365-1380. Source: Cotton Tiberius B. VIII, f.50v. Language: French.
EditorialLa Melisse des Pyrenees. Lemon balm, Melissa officinalis. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant dans les jardins de la chine, que dans c...
EditorialBalm of Gilead, Commiphora gileadensis (Amyris gileadensis). Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Main's Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835. James Main (1775-1846) was a Scottish gardener, botanist and writer.
EditorialWater horehound, Lycopus europaeus, and lemon balm, Melissa officinalis. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illus...
EditorialBastard balm, Melissa adulterina, and lesser calamint, Clinopodium nepeta. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of ill...
EditorialBalm of Gilead, Commiphora gileadensis (Balsamodendrum opobalsamum). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialPerilla, shiso or jasoyup, Perilla frutescens (Balm-leaved perilla, Perilla ocymoides). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by John Curtis from William Curtis' Botanical Magazine, Samuel Curtis, London, 1823.
EditorialBalm of Gilead, Commiphora gileadensis (Balsam of Gilead tree, Amyris gileadensis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816.
EditorialBalsam fir or balm of Gilead fir, Abies balsamea (Pinus balsamea). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialLemon balm or balm mint, Melissa officinalis. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialCommon balm, Melissa hortensis. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Turpin (1775~1840) was one o...
EditorialBalm of Peru, Myroxylum peruiserum 1, and elemi gum tree, Amyris elemisera 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publish...
EditorialBalm or balsam of Gilead, Commiphora gileadensis. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Turpin (177...
EditorialLemon balm, Melissa officinalis, native to southern Europe. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany i...
EditorialThe first born baby by F. Goodall, 1862, young egyptian mother, egypt; costume of the east; Cairene mother; copt woman; from the christian or copt quarter of Cairo; long veil; black habbarah; earrings; dress with venetian sequins and other gold coins; ...
EditorialCommon balm, Melissa officinalis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Medical Botany," John Bohn, London, 1832. The tireless Sowerby (1757-1822) drew...
EditorialSalve stick for ophtalmic treatment with the seal of the oculist Q (uintus) Valerius Sextus and his recipe: Balm against falling eye sight. From Metz or the Moselle region, France.