The collections
The Museum Plantin-Moretus conserves a multiple collections. Old printed books and manuscripts, printing presses and tools, paintings, prints and drawings, furniture and paintings and several archives.
Illustrated flowers of nature - Rembert Dodoens
Rembert Dodoens published his Cruydtboeck with Plantin. In the 16th century, it was the most translated book after the Bible.
'I wrote the herb book in Dutch. I hope that it will strengthen the love and devotion of herbal lovers.'
Stirpium historiae pemtades sex
Dodoens served as personal physician to Emperor Maximilian II and Emperor Rudolf II. He wrote medical treatises but is best known as a botanist. With his Cruydtboeck of 1554, he laid the foundations of botany and became one of the finest plant describers of his time.
In Stirpium historiae pemtades sex, also known as the Cruydtboeck, Dodoens did not limit himself to medicinal plants. He described plants systematically, detailing their origin, flowering period and uses.
iRembert Dodoens, Stirpium historiae pemptades sex (Antwerpen: Christoffel Plantijn, c. 1583) Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerpen
