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Besler, Basilius

Anemone flore multiplici coccineo colore tenuifolia

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Eigenschaften
  • Eichstätt & Nürnberg
  • 1713
  • Print
  • 1613-1713
  • Basilius Besler Hortus Eystettensis
  • Copper engraving / later hand color
  • 48 x 40 cm (19 x 15,75 inches).
  • Plate 32
  • 35860
  • In excellent condition.

Article description

Article description

A fine copper engraving published in the famous large flower book „Hortus Eystettensis" in Altdorf and Nürnberg first around 1613. The „Hortus Eystettensis" was the largest flowerbook ever published in that period. It contained 367 different engraved plates, each of them depicting often with several images of flowers or herbs. This fine engraving is published in the so-called „jubilee edition"1713 in Eichstätt and Nürnberg. Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was a respected Nuremberg apothecary and botanist, best known for his monumental Hortus Eystettensis. He was curator of the garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria. The bishop was an enthusiastic botanist who derived great pleasure from his garden, which rivaled Hortus Botanicus Leiden among early European botanical gardens outside Italy. The gardens surrounded the bishop's palace,Willibaldsburg', which was built on a hill overlooking the town. These gardens had been started in 1596 and designed by Besler's colleague,Joachim Camerarius the Younger (1534–1598)', a physician and botanist. Upon Camerarius' death in 1598 Basilius Besler had the remainder of Camerarius' plants moved to Eichstätt and carried on the work of planting and supervision. The bishop commissioned Besler to compile a codex of the plants growing in his garden, a task which Besler took sixteen years to complete, however the bishop was dying shortly before the work was published. The gardens were sacked by invading Swedish troops under Herzog Bernhard von Weimar in 1633-34. In the 20th century the garden was exactly restructed following the,Hortus Eystettensis' and opened to the public in 1998. (Wikipedia)

Plate 32


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