Overview
The most up-to-date botanical atlas for Codex Cruz-Badianus enthusiasts
Enriches understanding of nearly all plant species present in the original Codex Cruz-Badianus
A visual journey for those interested in the Columbian Exchange and related topics, and how new world plants were classified, used, and distributed around the world
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About this book
CCB was produced at the Colegio of Imperial de Santa Cruz at Tlatelolco established in 1536 to train sons of the Aztec nobility for the clergy. The authors were two indigenous faculty members, Martin (Martinus in Latin) de la Cruz and Juan Badiano (Juannes Badianus in Latin) whose Spanish names were conferred upon their baptism. Martin de la Cruz was the Colegio’s indigenous doctor who gave instruction in medicine and Juan Badiano, a Latin teacher and former student translated the book into Latin.
The herbal dedicated to the Viceroy Francisco de Mendoza was sent to Spain as a gift to King Carlos I soon after its completion in 1552. The original ended up in the Vatican Library until 1990 when John Paul II returned it to Mexico. In 1931, the Mayanist scholar, William Gates, and the biologist Emily Walcott Emmart became aware of the manuscript and independently translated it to English. In 2009, Martin Clayton, Luigi Guerrini, and Alejandro de Avila identified plants of the CCB based on Emmart’s book and a 17th century copy found in the Windsor library. Of the 185 phytomophs, Gates identified 85 on the generic level, Emmart 9, and Clayton et al. 126. However most of these identifications disagree. In the present work, 183 of 185 phytomorphs are systematically re-evaluated and identified on the generic, as well as specific level, along with their botanical descriptions, previous identifications, putative identification, distribution, names, and uses.
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About the authors
Dr. Jules Janick is the James Troop Distinguished Professor in the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture at Purdue University. He is the Founder and Editor of Horticultural Reviews and Plant Breeding Review. He has authored or edited over 150 volumes, and has published 500 papers on horticulture, genetics and breeding, horticultural history, art, and iconography. Janick is the coauthor of Unraveling the Voynich Codex, and Flora of the Voynich Codex: An Exploration of Aztec Plants, both published by Springer in 2018 and 2019.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Flora of the Codex Cruz-Badianus
Authors: Arthur O. Tucker, Jules Janick
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46959-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46958-0Published: 10 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46961-0Published: 11 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-46959-7Published: 09 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 321
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 280 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Popular Science in History, Archaeology