Hortus Malabaricus
Hortus Malabaricus (the "Garden of Malabar") is a comprehensive representation of the plants and their properties (especially as medicinal plants ) in the Indian state of Kerala .
history
The research work for the work, which was originally written in Latin , lasted almost 30 years; the gradual publication took place in Amsterdam between 1678 and 1693. The impetus for the creation of the work came from Hendrik van Rheede , the then governor of the Dutch Malabar. The book was translated into English and Malayalam by KS Manilal and published by the University of Kerala.
description
The Hortus Malabaricus comprises 12 volumes of 200 pages each and 794 copperplate engravings. The first volume was published in 1678, the last in 1693. The work is regarded as the first comprehensive, printed treatise on Asian and tropical flora.
The work describes the plants of the Malabar coast , at that time the coastal stretches of the Western Ghats from Goa to Kanyakumari . It reports in detail on the flora of Kerala in text and drawings . A total of over 742 plants and the regional knowledge about them are treated. The work also uses a tradition based on the traditions of the region's healers. In addition to the Latin names, the plant names are also given in other languages, including Konkani , Arabic , English and Malayalam .
The special, comprehensive nature of the work was recognized by T. Whitehouse in his Historical Notices of Cochin on the Malabar Coast in 1859 :
Different plant species were considered in this work type defined.
Employee
Hendrik van Rheede pushed the creation of the work and is said to have been personally heavily involved in the implementation and organization of the Hortus Malabaricus . The team of almost one hundred authors included:
- Brahmin medicine practitioners such as Ranga Bhat, Vinayaka Pandit, Appu Bhat and Itti Achuden, an Ayurvedic doctor
- Professors of medicine and botany
- Hobby botanists such as Arnold Seyn, Theodore Jansson von Almeloveen , Paul Hermann , Johannes Munnicks, Joannes Commelinus, Abraham a Poot.
- Technicians, illustrators and engravers as well as officials of the Dutch East India Company and clerics such as D. John Caesarius and the Discalced Carmelite Mathaeus of the Joseph Monastery of Varapuzha.
Van Rheede's company was further supported by the King of Cochin and the ruling Zamorin of Kozhikode . The ethnomedical details were largely provided by R. Bhat, V. Pandit, and A. Bhat. For this achievement they were honored with a monument in Kochi.
Professor KS Manilal (* 1938) spent a lot of time studying, translating and annotating the Hortus Malabaricus and made the work, which was previously available exclusively in Latin, in the languages Malayalam and English and thus made available to general current science.
Web links
- Archive.org: Digital version of the Hortus Malabaricus
- Hendrik van Rheede: Hortus Malabaricus (meaning Garden of Malabar) is a comprehensive treatise that deals with the medicinal properties of the flora in the Indian state of Kerala on Archive.org
- Indiasocial.org: 325-year-old Dutch work on Kerala's plant wealth revived
- Hindu.com: Hortus Malabaricus' - a feather in the varsity's cap
- Memorial to Ranga Bhat Vinayak Pandit and Appu Bhat at Kochi on srimad.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hendrik van Reede dead Drakestein: Hortus Indicus Malabaricus. Continens regni Malabarici apud Indos cereberrimi onmis generis plantas rariores, Latinas, Malabaricis, Arabicis, Brachmanum charactareibus hominibusque expressas…. Johannis van Someren, Joannis van Dyck, Amsterdam 1678–1703, biodiversitylibrary.org (Latin).
- ↑ Malayalam version of Hortus Malabaricus. In: The Hindu. Chennai, India, December 8, 2006, ISSN 0971-751X , ( thehindu.com ). Retrieved April 7, 2016.
- ↑ 'Hortus Malabaricus' - a feather in the varsity's cap. In: The Hindu. Chennai, India, February 19, 2004. p. 3, ( hindu.com ). Retrieved April 7, 2016.
- ↑ Hortus Malabaricus / Hendrik A. Van Rheede dead Draakestein . In: Review . Vedamsbooks.com. Archived from the original on April 15, 2003. Retrieved December 23, 2006.
- ^ Reverend T. Whitehouse: Historical Notices of Cochin on the Malabar Coast. Cottayam CM Press, Kerala 1859, ( archive.org ).
- ^ NC Majumdar, DN Guha Bakshi: A Few Linnaean Specific Names Typified by the Illustrations in Rheede's Hortus Indicus Malabaricus. In: Taxon. Volume 28, No. 4. 1979, pp. 353-354, ( JSTOR 1219745 ) doi: 10.2307 / 1219745 .
- ↑ Our first printed word. (No longer available online.) In: The Hindu. hinduonnet.com, archived from the original on June 27, 2006 ; Retrieved April 7, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
