Bean plant
Type Subject
Date 1390-1400
Artist
- Attributed to the circle of Giovannino de' Grassi
Media
Manuscript Illumination
Location
Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense, MS 4182, XCIV
Notes
The field is full of bean plants. The plants are in bloom.
The bean pods are reddish, perhaps in accordance with the latin text below the miniature, which states that the best beans are the "red" ones.
Perhaps, hypothetically, the plants depicted in the miniature could be identified as cowpea plants (Vigna unguiculata L. or Vigna sinensis L.)