Caspari Bauhini viri clariss. Pinax Theatri botanici, sive, Index in Theophrasti, Dioscoridis, Plinij et botanicorum qui à seculo scripserunt opera : plantarum circiter sex millium ab ipsis exhibitarum nomina cum earundem synonymijs & differentijs methodice secundum genera & species proponens : opus XL annorum summopere expetitum ad autoris autographum recensitum
Caspar Bauhin's Pinax Theatri botanici, a 1671 Basel botanical index by the Swiss physician and botanist Caspar Bauhin (1560-1624), catalogued plants of classical and later botanists for scholars and physicians. Its woodcut plates show single plants drawn whole, roots to flowers, with leaves, stems and seed heads set against a plain ground; a designer could draw on their crisp hatched linework and tidy botanical layouts for natural-history patterns, labels or line-art motifs.
