Five spring plants share one uncolored folio page, each numbered and named in Latin. At the center sprawls a scaly toothwort with spikes of drooping bells, Squammata seu dentaria maior. Above it stand red- and white-flowered dog's-tooth violets with swept-back petals, mottled leaves and bulbs; below are spotted lungwort with its roots and a clump of pale primroses.

The number 15 is written in the corners. Basilius Besler, a Nuremberg apothecary, recorded the garden of Prince-Bishop Johann Konrad von Gemmingen of Eichstätt in the Hortus Eystettensis, first published in 1613. The garden, which Besler had helped to establish, was laid out on eight terraces around the bishop's palace on the Willibaldsburg. This engraving comes from the spring section of the book, plate 15, in the 1640 edition. Besler died in 1629, and invading Swedish troops destroyed the Eichstätt gardens in 1633.

The title of this 1640 edition describes plants that were once to be seen in the famous gardens around the bishop's castle. It is in the Peter H. Raven Library of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St.

Louis.