[Sca-cooks] Red Tomato in Nature Illuminated

[Olwen the Odd]

>Earlier this week I received a copy of
>Nature Illuminated
>Flora and Fauna from the Court of Emperor Rudolf II.
>It reproduces forty-one pages from the original
>Mira calligraphiae monumenta which combines the
>calligraphy from Georg Bocskay and
>illuminations by the miniaturist Joris Hoefnagel who
>"filled the spaces on each manuscript page with insects, fruits,
>flowers, and
>other botanical images."
>
>These include a distinctly red tomato. There are kidney beans
>and scarlet runner beans also.
>It turns out that the page faeturing the tomato can be
>seen at:
>http://www.getty.edu/bookstore/samples/nature_smp.shtml
>
>A number of other food plants are illustrated.
>Hoefnagel died circa 1601, so the work
>can be dated late 16th century or 1590's.
>
>Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway

What a fabulous magazine!  It would be wonderful to have a copy of that.
Can I order it online?  I browsed around the site a little but couldn't
figure out how to find that information out.
Olwen

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