For his work, van rheede, the governor of cochin obtainedall materials and. The book project was promoted and materialised by the dutch commander at kochi. Malabaricus, or garden of malabar, was compiled and published between 1678 and 1693 by hendrik adriaan van rheede tot draakenstein van. A contribution to the history of dutch colonial botany. Hendrik van rheede tot drakenstein, amsterdam, 16361691. It contains descriptions and illustrations of 742 plants. The work was published as a 12 volume series from 1678 to 1693 over fifteen years. Find out more about this rare volume in the rcs librarys first digital exhibition. Hendrik adriaan van reede tot drakestein wikipedia.
Van rheede was a com mander of cochin in the employ of the dutch east india company from 16731678. Pdf hortus malabaricus and the ethnoiatrical knowledge of. Hortus malabaricus meaning garden of malabar is the oldest comprehensive printed book on the natural plant wealth of asia and of the tropics. Selected illustrations from the stunning hortus malabaricus garden of malabar, an epic treatise dealing with the medicinal properties of the flora in the indian state of kerala. Hendrik van rheede wikimili, the free encyclopedia.
Hailed as the first europeanindian collaborative work on native flora, hortus malabaricus contained. Pdf hortus malabaricus and the ethnoiatrical knowledge. But a still more enduring monument is his scientific memoir, hortus indicus malabaricus. Hortus malabaricus meaning garden of malabar is a comprehensive treatise that deals with. The palms and their medicinal as well as other properties recorded by rheede are discussed in this paper. The 12 volumes of this malabar garden were printed and published from amsterdam between the years 1678 and 1693. Indicux importance of the hortus indicus malabaricus cannot be overestimated. This file contains additional information such as exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it.
Hortus malabaricus meaning garden of malabar is a comprehensive treatise that deals with the medicinal properties of the flora in the indian. Since the technology was not developed at that time, the written. Manilal has spent over 35 years rendering hortus malabaricus to english. Hendrik adriaan van rheede tot drakestein lahir di amsterdam, april 1636 meninggal di laut arab, 15 desember 1691 pada umur 55 tahun adalah pegawai militer dan administratif voc, yang sejak tahun 1680 menjadi tuan tanah di mijdrecht. Portrait of hendrik adriaan van reede tot drakenstein 16361691 engraving c. Hortus malabaricus malabaricis, arabicis, brachmanum charactareibus hominibusque expressas. The book was conceived by hendrik van rheede, who was the governor of dutch.
Van rheedes hortus malabaricus english edition 12volume. Although the engraving is unsigned, it has been attributed to the amsterdam artist pieter van gunst. Pdf on aug 9, 20, t sabu and others published hortus malabaricus and the. A stupendous work in latin, hortus indicus malabaricus is the earliest as well as most comprehensive book on the natural plant wealth of malabar kerala. Hy het n boek uitgegee, waarin 740 plante beskryf word en hiervoor het hy talle mense in diens geneem. Hortus indicus malabaricus garden of malabar of india.
Hortus malabaricus is the oldest important printed book on indian medicinal plants. Van rheede, the dutch governor of cochin, a soldier who had no training in botany, became fasci nated by the flora of malabar, compiled and. Hortus indicus malabaricus by hendrik van rheede published by johann van someren, amsterdam. Hortus malabaricus, the monumental 17th century treatise on medicobotanical plant wealth of kerala. Hendrik adriaan van reede tot drakenstein 16361691 and hortus malabaricus. This part of india was truly and rightly the most fertile part of the whole world. Hortus malabaricus english edition 12 volumes is the translation of the oldest comprehensive printed book on the natural plant wealth of asia and of the tropics, compiled and published in latin by van rheede during 16781693. It was during these years, he had time to study and. Three dutch botanical engravings of plants, flowers and fruit from hortus indicus malabaricus, 17th century, circa 16781703. The most elaborate commentary on rheedes 16781693 hortus malabaricus is that by buchananhamilton, the publication of which, however, stopped. Hortus malabaricus meaning garden of malabar is a comprehensive treatise that deals with the medicinal properties of the flora in the indian state of kerala addeddate.
Untuk penerbitan karyanya, yang menjelaskan 740 tanaman, ia. Hortus malabaricus, medicinal palms, plant wealth of malabar. On the english edition of van rheedes hortus malabaricus. Van rheede is perhaps the only authentic record of the ethnoiatrical knowledge. Hendrik adriaan van reede tot drakenstein 16361691 and. Hortus malabaricus has become important to scholars of the flourishing of dutch botany in the 17th and 18thcenturies. Pdf hortus malabaricus is the oldest important printed book on indian medicinal plants. Hortus is believed to be the earliest comprehensive printed work on the flora of asia and the tropics. On the english edition of van rheedes hortus malabaricus by k. Originally written in latin, it was compiled over a period of nearly 30 years and published in amsterdam between 1678 and 1693 in 12 volumes of about 500 pages each, with a total of 794 copper plate engravings. Images from the hortus malabaricus volumes at blatter herbarium library of st. Rheede was governor of the dutch colony of malabar on the southwest coast of india from to and from the chief representative of the dutch east india company in india.
Hortus malabaricus a great contribution of konkanis. Incidentally, hortus malabaricus is the first book in which malayalam appears in print. This is primarily because of its numerous illustrations within the ample twelve folio volumes 794 copper plate engravings and. Henrik van reede from hortus malabaricus picwik uiowa wiki. Hortus indicus malabaricus is a work of 12 folio volumes with 794 illustrations. Van rheede is perhaps the only authentic record of the ethnoiatrical knowledge of ancient malabar, available to us today. Between 1669 and 1676 he served as a governor of dutch malabar and employed twentyfive people on his book hortus. Van rheede died on voyage from ceylon to surat in 1691 and was buried in surat where a very fine monument has been built over his tomb. Van rheede s hortus malabaricus is most remembered as the celebrated botanical work on the plant wealth of malabar. Hendrik adriaan van rheede tot drakenstein amsterdam, april 1636 at sea, 15 december 1691 was a military man and a colonial administrator of the dutch east india company and naturalist. Buy hortus malabaricus book online at best prices in india on. Hortus malabaricus is an online community platform serving an international interest group regarding the hortus malabaricus, a 17th century 12volume book illustrating around 700 indigenous plants in the malabar region of kerala, india that explains their medicinal properties, with captions in 5 different languages. Rheede tot drakenstein, preface to volume 3 of the.