• Restricted fragile material. May only be seen with permission of appropriate curator.
• Wood block of pear wood, containing illustration of the plant Achillea Ptarmica, used in the printing of the German translation of Mattioli's Discorsi (Prague: 1563).
• Purchased from Camille Sourget on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2011.
• Note pasted on back in the hand of French botanist Duhamel du Monceau.
• Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Wood Block of an Achillea Ptarmica.

Subjects:

• Mattioli, Pietro Andrea, 1501-1577.
• Manuscripts, Renaissance -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
• Botany -- Early works to 1800.
• Manuscripts, Renaissance -- Prague -- 16th century.
• Wood blocks (printing blocks) -- Prague -- 16th century.
• Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.