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Book published 1561.

Book published 1541.

p. 132-133: ROSA refrigerat & astringit, sed sicca multo magis. Succus recentibus foliis exprimitur, defectis sorsice unguibus (sic appellantur candidæ foliorum partes) reliquum in plia premi & teri debet in umbra donec cogatur, asperis.  [ROSE is cooling & astringent, but dry much more so. The juice is squeezed out of fresh leaves, when the nails are broken (so the white parts of the leaves are called), the rest is pressed into folds and must be rubbed in the shade until it is forced, rough.]

Other published 1565.

Collection of about 1500 plant drawings mostly by Gessner himself, not published during his lifetime. Extracts were published in the 17th and 18th centuries. The collection is at the University of Erlangen, Germany, since 1809.

The drawings of roses are part of an 8-volume annotated facsimile publication by Martin Steinmann (see) and Karl Schmid in 1972-1980.

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