Watercolours of garden fruits: strawberry, gooseberry, cherries,
plums, damsons, date, apricots, nectarines, peaches, apple, pears,
quince, hazel nut, grapes. There are 66 surviving pictures
(sometimes including insects, birds, etc.), plus one inserted
picture of a lily (fol. iv verso). They are arranged, species by
species, roughly by date of ripening during the gardener's year.
Earlier 17th century (after 1611, perhaps 1620s).
Additional information:
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/1500-1900/mss/ashmole/1461a.htm
Provenance: Perhaps made in association with the elder John
Tradescant (d. 1638). Later owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-1692).
