[Trinity] General discussion of Trinity College MS O.2.48 Apuleii Herbarium

[MarcoP]

I attach a comparison between some scenes in Cambridge Trinity College MS O.2.48 and Florence Plut.73.16 (XIII Century). My impression is that the author of the Cambridge ms was aware of the tradition represented by the Florence ms, but autonomously produced new scenes. Many of the scenes are similar, but none really seems to be an actual copy. The exception is the Mandrake illustration that (like the Thlaspi illustration discussed You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) clearly was copied from a typical Pseudo-Apuleius ms. The plants in the first part of the manuscript seem to be copies from known sources, but the scenes don't.

The illustrations in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. are very similar to those in Plut.73.16, so the same considerations apply.