(01-05-2017, 12:10 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Wonderful, Marco. How would you interpret this similarity? Do you think it might point to a common source text?
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The You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. I linked above seems very promising to me. In the "Manoscritti" tab she provides a list of manuscripts with texts about Borissa. If they are ancient enough, they could be a common source. Lucia is referred to as "One of Nine" plants, so it must have originally appeared in a collection of nine plants, but it might also be the collection of 19 plants mentioned by Ciuonzo (Liber de virtutibus herbarum decem et novem).