Caption
Woodblock illustration of Mandrake (Mandragora) from two pages of the Ortus (Hortus) sanitatis - translated from the Latin as 'Garden of Health' by Jacob Meydenbach, 1491. He describes plants and animals (both real and mythical) together with minerals and medicine. The mandrake has a wrinkled forked root which is supposed to looks like a human body.
Availability
Only inBelgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland