Pepper (Piper nigrum) and peony (Paeonia); Pepper and peony. A bird is in the pepper bush. FIGs. 27 and 28 on a sheet numbered by hand 14. In: Anselmi Boetii de Boot I.C. Brugensis & Rodolphi II. Imp. Novel. medici a cubiculis Florum; Herbarum; ac fructuum selectiorum icones; & vires pleraeque hactenus ignot脙娄. Part of the album with sheets and plates from De Boodts herbarium from 1640. The twelfth of twelve albums with watercolors of animals; birds and plants known around 1600; commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II; anonymous; Southern Netherlands; 1640; paper; ink; watercolor (paint); engraving; h 135 mm 脙鈥?w 205 mm h 160 mm 脙鈥?w 230 mm