bA richly illustrated account of how premodern botanical illustrations document evolving knowledge about plants and the ways they were studied in the past.b p This book traces the history of botanical illustration in the Mediterranean from antiquity to the early modern period. By examining Greek, Latin, and Arabic botanical inquiry in this early era, Andrew Griebeler shows how diverse and sophisticated modes of plant depiction emerged and ultimately gave rise to practices now recognized as central to modern botanical illustration. The documentation is remarkable and varied, and the author draws on centuries of material from across Europe and the Mediterranean. p Lavishly illustrated, iBotanical Iconsi marshalls ample evidence for a dynamic and critical tradition of botanical inquiry and nature observation in the late antique and medieval Mediterranean. The author reveals that many of the critical practices characteristic of modern botanical illustrations began in premodern manuscript c