Tulip book of cos 1637

The first comes from a tulip book, an album of flowers that was used by. The designs and details are pulled from the manuscript nursery catalogue of florist p. Tulips and tulip bulbs were bought and sold actively, frantically in fact, and this trade. This gave rise to a veritable tulipmania, which held many dutchmen in its grip in 1636 and 1637. Perfectly tying in with the interest in oddities and curiosities of the time, the sudden occurrence of striped. It was published at the peak of the tulipomania, a period in the golden age during which contract prices for bulbs of the recently introduced tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then suddenly collapsed. Cos 1637 is unique among such books in that it mentions the name, weight.

Prices spiraled to a extremely high level for bulbs of which neither buyer nor seller had. The dutch tulip mania bubble, when the flower cost more. The most expensive one, the viseroij, was sold for dfl 3,000 and dfl 4,200. Cos during the height of tulip mania from 16341637. Cos book was a kind of catalog to the tulipmania bubble of ridiculously inflated prices that burst in 1637. Perfectly tying in with the interest in oddities and curiosities of the time, the sudden occurre. This booklet contains 2 copies each of 5 unique tulip postcards plus envelopes. Fifteen or twenty times a year salary of a schooled craftsman. The great tulip book 1640 a manuscript catalog owned by norton simon. If the flower had initially roused largely scientific interest, from around 1630 on tulips became attractive financially. Cos of haarlem, which is a manuscript nursery catalogue of tulips and a small number of other flowers, published in 1637. In addition to images, weight and price of each bulb is given.

It is generally considered the first recorded speculative bubble. Cos summary includes a special contents list and a full text of the tulip book of nurseryman p. Cos tulip book of 1637 a manuscript catalog owned by wageningen university. Traditionally in holland, the buying and selling of tulip bulbs occurred during the. The tulip book of pieter cos is a manuscript nursery catalogue from 1637 with tulips and a small number of other flowers. Tulipomania pamphlets in the netherlands during the first half of the seventeenth century, tulip bulbs were sold at outrageous prices. The 1637 event was popularized in 1841 by the book extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of. In comparison with most other tulip books, this one is special because the names of the tulips are mentioned. The tulips popularity reached unprecedented, even excessive, heights, in the 1630s. Speculation rose in the year 1637 to an extent that bulbs were sold faster than they could grow. Old tulips manuscript dutch tulip catalogs created.

Cos during the height of tulip mania from 1634 1637. In many ways, the tulip mania was more of a hitherto unknown socioeconomic. Cos, florist of haarlem, 1637 names as copied from the book sold for. Cos, the source document for much of what is known about en. Cos of haarlem is a manuscript nursery catalogue of tulips and a small number of other flowers, published in 1637.