Julius Platzmann
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Karl Julius Platzmann was a German botanical illustrator, writer and bibliophile. Platzmann first studied as an artist, and later travelled to Brazil, where he created hundreds of botanical illustrati
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The Platzmann family manorial estate at Hohnstädt.
1. Trimezia martinicensis and 2. Cypella coerulea
Billbergia amoena
Alonso de Molina
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Alonso de Molina was a Franciscan priest and grammarian, who wrote a well-known dictionary of the Nahuatl language published in 1571 and still used by scholars working on Nahuatl texts in the traditio
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…thoughts. (Van Hal 2020, translation) He spent enormous sums of money on these volumes. Vasconcellos cites a then-recent catalog listing of one work — Alonso de Molina’s dictionary of Nahuatl — as being valued at “£72 sterling”, which amounts to thousands of pounds in modern dollars, perhaps a year's salary for a…
Molina's dictionary.
"La doctrina cristiana en mexicano" (Christian doctrine in Nahuatl (Mexican)) by the author