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Taccuinum Sanitatis. Botanical illustrations manuscript

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Taccuinum Sanitatis. Botanical illustrations manuscript

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Public domain photo of botanical artwork, medieval or early renaissance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

The manuscript was issued in Germany around 1410 and gives an insight into medicine of the Middle Ages. Pictures are made in ink or pen and have explanatory inscriptions in German and Latin. In those days, astrology and nonscientific ideas and superstitions greately influenced the art of medicine. The manuscript starts with a picture of the Earth and seven planets; then it is followed by the Zodiac Man. Each part of his body has a particular sign of the zodiac. Bloodletting charts, which are also provided in this encyclopedia were widespread during this period. It is a very harmful procedure, but people of the middle ages believed that it could cure diseases. These charts contained very complicated instructions which consider phases of the moon, different diseases, and different spots on the body. In the last part, there are some allegorical drawings of the Tower of Wisdom, Microcosmus and Macrocosmus, the Tree of Virtue, Philosophy surrounded by the Seven Arts, stories showing the evil power of women, the Wheel of Fortune and others. The New York Public Library comprises simultaneously a set of scholarly research collections and a network of community libraries, and its intellectual and cultural range is both global and local, while singularly attuned to New York City. That combination lends to the Library an extraordinary richness. It is special also in being historically a privately managed, nonprofit corporation with a public mission, operating with both private and public financing in a century-old, still evolving private-public partnership. Last year, over 16 million New Yorkers visited the library, and over 25 million used its website. The NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 640,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including not just photographs but illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and more. Digital projects and partnerships at NYPL are managed by the Digital Experience Group, a 21-person team of programmers, designers and producers dedicated to expanding and enhancing all points of computer and Web-mediated interaction with the library's collections, services and staff.

This large AI-assisted collection comprises about 60,000 images of botanical drawings and illustrations. It spans from the 14th to 19th century. As of today, we estimate the total number of botanical illustrations in our archive as 200,000 and growing. The "golden age" of botanical illustration is generally considered to be the 18th and 19th centuries, a time when there was a great deal of interest in botany and a proliferation of botanical illustrations being produced. During this period, many of the great botanical illustrators of the time, such as Maria Sybilla Merian, Pierre-Joseph Redouté, and John James Audubon, were active and produced some of the most iconic and influential botanical illustrations of all time. In addition to being used for scientific purposes, botanical illustrations were also highly prized for their beauty and were often used to decorate homes and other public spaces. Many of the most famous botanical illustrations from this period are still admired and collected today for their beauty and historical significance. All large Picryl collections were made possible with the development of neural image recognition. We made our best to reduce false-positive image recognition to under 5%.

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1460
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Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication ("CCO 1.0 Dedication")

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