Thirty-eight drawings, chiefly coloured but a few plain, of various species of tulips, 17th century
Including, at fol. 15, the famous species Semper Augustus. This, and one at fol. 4, Salifar (?), are the only drawings to which the names are attached.
On the first two leaves are prefixed two well-executed drawings; the first representing in the fore-ground (in evidently a life-like portrait) a sea-captain examining on shore the chart of a coast, with a dead body pierced by an arrow beside him, and in the back-ground, the line of coast on which he has landed, with three ships anchored, boat-loads of men disembarking and meeting the natives, and in the distance a battle; the second representing two broken fluted columns, with creeping plants growing round them.
Dates
- Creation: 17th century
Extent
40 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. Rawl. D. 688
Other Finding Aids
William D. Macray, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae partis quintae fasciculus primus viri munificentissimi Ricardi Rawlinson, J.C.D., codicum classes duas priores, ad rem historicam praecipue et topographicam spectantes, complectens(Oxford, 1862), no. D. 688.
Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series(7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. III, no. 13460.
Physical Facet
On paper, in folio
Repository Details
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