Accession number: MA 3900

Credit: The Morgan Library & Museum. Bequest of Clara S. Peck, 1983.

Title: Histoire Naturelle des Indes [supplied on an 18th century title page]

Contents: 199 images of West Indian plants, animals and human life, with accompanying manuscript captions written in late sixteenth-century French.

Medium: Most of the illustrations consist of a black chalk underdrawing and a combination of pen and brown ink with watercolor; on some images selected areas have also been glazed with a gum.

Dimensions: Binding: 30 x 21 cm; individual leaves: 29.3 x 19.7 cm.

Binding: Bound or rebound in brown leather in the late 18th century.

Pagination: Penciled folio numbers (1–125) in lower right corner of each page were added by The Morgan Library & Museum. Folios 92v–93, 93v–94, and 95v–96 are fold-out leaves.