Flora - The Aztec Herbal (Hardcover)

This volume catalogues Cassiano dal Pozzo's copy of the Codex Cruz-Badianus, an Aztec herbal prepared for the son of the Viceroy of Mexico in 1552 and the earliest medical text to have survived from the New World. The original codex was presented to Cassiano's patron, Cardinal Francesco Barberini, during a papal legation to Spain in 1626, and was copied on the Cardinal's return to Rome for Cassiano's fellow members of the Accademia dei Lincei, who at that time were completing their own vast illustrated natural history of Central America.Cassiano's copy of the Codex Cruz-Badianus is preserved in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle together with the larger surviving part of his 'Paper Museum', an encyclopaedic collection of prints and drawings of antiquities, architecture and natural history subjects, acquired by George III in 1762.Each folio of the Windsor manuscript is reproduced in colour together with full comparative illustrations of the Codex Cruz-Badianus. The Latin text is transcribed with a parallel English translation, and each of the 184 drawings of plants is analysed. The catalogue is preceded by general introductions to the Paper Museum and to the natural history drawings, and by two thematic essays: Luigi Guerrini discusses the Windsor copy in the context of the Lincei's researches into the natural history of the New World; and Alejandro de Avila reviews the current state of research into the original Codex Cruz-Badianus, including the fieldwork and linguistic researches in Mexico that are changing our understanding of the manuscript.

General

Imprint:	Harvey Miller Publishers
Country of origin:	Belgium
Release date:	December 2009
First published:	February 2010
Authors:	Martin Clayton • Alejandro De Avila • Luigi Guerrini
Dimensions:	289 x 217 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	255
ISBN-13:	978-1-905375-30-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Drawing & drawings > General
LSN:	1-905375-30-1
Barcode:	9781905375301

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