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an old book with a drawing of a tree on it's side and fruit in the middle

Pictura of Paradin, Claude: Devises heroïques (1557): Ab insomni non custodita Dracone.

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nine different types of plants and flowers

Plants in the Beautiful Dangers are either poisonous or have been thought to be poisonous at different times in history. Hemlock, Cannabis, Hemlock, even the rose. Tiles based on medieval illustration from the Juliana Codex (Vienna Dioscorides), the De Materia Medica of Pedranius Dioscorides.

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a piece of paper with plants on it and writing in the middle, including leaves
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an old book page with leaves and acorns

A branch from an oak tree with acorns; illustration to an unidentified Latin edition of Sebastian Münster, 'Cosmographia', probably printed by Petri in Basel, c.1544-52. Woodcut

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four different types of trees with leaves and flowers on them, in latin text from the late 14th century

The Hague, KB, 72 A 23 Chapter 113 The trees and their symbolic significance: Olive-Tree and the Fifth Beatitude ~ Sermon on the Mount Fol. 90v: drawing (coloured)

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