Flora of the Codex Cruz-Badianus
In 1929, Charles Upson Clark (1975-1960), a history Professor at Columbia University carrying out bibliographic research on the early history of the Americas in the Vatican Library, came across a remarkable illustrated Latin manuscript entitled Libellus d
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Flora of the Codex Cruz-Badianus
Flora of the Codex Cruz-Badianus
Arthur O. Tucker • Jules Janick
Flora of the Codex Cruz-Badianus
Arthur O. Tucker (deceased) Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources Delaware State University Dover, DE, USA
Jules Janick Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture Purdue University West Lafayette, IN, USA
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For Sharon L. Tucker and Patricia M. Ryan
Cover Image: Three phytomorphs of the Codex Cruz-Badianus labeled (from left to right) as Temahuiztiliquauitl, Tlapalcacauatl, and Tecalamacoztl are identified as Castilleja integra A. Gray Orobanchaceae, Theobroma cacao L. Malvaceae, and Ficus petiolaris Kunth, respectively.
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Emily Walcott Emmart Trueblood
Dedication
This present work honors a magnificent woman who remains relatively unknown and unsung despite her extraordinary achievements in historical botany. She will forever be famous for her book, The Badianus Manuscript: (Codex Barberini Latin 24l) Vatican Library, An Aztec Herbal of 1552, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 1940. This work contained a facsimile in color of an Aztec herbal, Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis (A Little Book of Indian Medicinal Herbs) “composed” by Martin de la Cruz, a physician of the College of Santa Cruz in Taltelolco, Mexico, and translated into Latin by a colleague, Juan Badiano, a former student of the Colegio. Remarkably both Cruz and Bandiano were indigenous Nahuans, and this manuscript is the earliest surviving herbal on Aztec m
