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From: Tracing the introduction history of the tulip that went wild (Tulipa sylvestris) in sixteenth-century Europe

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Kentmann’s illustration of Tulipa sylvestris was influential in sixteenth-century botany. Conrad Gessner kept a copy for his Historia Plantarum and drew on it the seeds he received from Melchior Wieland. University of Tartu, call nr: Mscr 55, f. 3v (a). An early watercolor found in the collection of Leonhart Fuchs, also presents remarkable similarity to Kentmann’s illustration. It is suggested to have been made by Heinrich Füllmaurer in ca. 1543–1547, but it is possibly of a later date. Austrian National Library, Cod. 11,122, p. 291: Historia stirpium (“Codex Fuchs”) (b).

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