1636 Collection (page 8)

Plants / Zea-Mays
MAIZE, or INDIAN CORN, named by Gerard TURKY WHEAT

Plants / Nicotiana Tabacum
TOBACCO PLANT described by Gerard as Henbane of Peru Some cannot forbeare [go without] it, no not in the midst of their dinner

Englishwoman 1636
An aristocratic lady in a low-cut house gown - Margaret Smith, lady Carye

Fr. Theatre / Duc D ossonne
Le Duc D Ossonne A character from Alizon by L.C.Discret

Sledge made for Christina, later Queen of Sweden
A sledge which Count Axel Oxenstierna had made for his ward Christina, later Queen of Sweden

Shyr-Dor Madrasah (Madressa) 1636, Registan Square, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Asia

Corneille / Le Cid
LE CID The character of Don Rodrigo, known as El Cid

Corneille / L illusion
L ILLUSION The character of Matamore

Play / Corneille / Le Cid
Rodrigo and donna Jimena in the play written by the French playwright Pierre Corneille

Fritillaria Imperialis
THE CROWNE IMPERIALL

Hyacinthoides Non-Script
BLUEBELL named by Gerard the lily-leaved starry Iacinth

Plants / Triticum
Triticum Lucidum Bright Wheat

Ulrichs Huber
ULRICHS HUBER Dutch philologist and jurist

James Hay Carlisle
JAMES HAY, earl of CARLISLE diplomat notorious for his extravagance, entering Paris his horses were shod with silver... with his autograph

Claude Expilly
CLAUDE EXPILLY, sieur de la Poepe French magistrate and writer

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