FDTW IIIF Manifests

Mandrake and Nigella plants, dog, hands, clod of earth, and horn

unknown

Giovanni Cadamosto

c. 1500-1600 AD

Harley 3736, f. 59

Herbal with treatises on food, poisons and remedies, and the properties of stones

Italian

British Library

unknown

Germany

Botany | Medicine

- Van Arsdall, Anne, Helmut W. Klug, and Paul Blanz, 'The Mandrake Plant and its Legend', in Old Names – New Growth: Proceedings of the 2nd ASPNS Conference, University of Graz, Austria, 6-10 June 2007, and Related Essays. Eds. Peter Bierbaumer and Helmut W. Klug (Frankfurt/Main: Lang, 2009).