R/16/1954 – drawing of a mandrake, dead dog, cords; and notes

Collection Number:

R/16/1954

Object name:

drawing of a mandrake, dead dog, cords; and notes

Object type:

Drawing

Languages:

Dutch,English

Other seals:

All Dutch parts have been directly translated.

‘Supplement no. VII with § 94: “Apuleius gives a description of the mandragora. “When a hereditary thief, to whom stealing is natural by being born in a thief’s family, or whose mother went stealing when she was pregnant, or at least wanted to, and who is a righteous young man, when he is hanged and aut sperma in terram effundit [his seed falls to the earth], tehn on this place will grow a mandrake-man, the hangin-pole man”. (Donald Culross Peattie, Nature disclosed: see notes 1954, fol. 203a.). S.’
‘Supplement no. Iii with § 94-dd, sub I (Photogr. Reprod.): “Engraving of a mandrake from John Gerard’s Herball”. “There hath beene many ridiculous tales brought up of this plant, whether of old wives, or some runnagate surgeons of physicke-mongers I know not… That it is never or very seldome to be found growing naturally but under a gallowes, where the matter that hath fallen from the death body hath given it the shape of a man; and the matter of a woman, the substance of a female plant…” See: HG.’
‘With HN: “A Middle-Dutch translation of the Antidotarium Nicolai with the latin text of the first printed version. W.S. van den Berg, Med. Docts-Arts, Leiden 1917. After his death and before the promotion taken care of by his sister Sophie J. van den Berg.” See Notes 1954, fol. 209, = sub II. O.’