(08-05-2017, 07:02 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Yes, I think so too. Either way it seems reasonable to take these geographical terms like Cappadocia only as very general indications of origin. I think only Sicily and the handful of south Italian regions are to be taken as relatively exact.
On the subject of origins...
Text beside one of the plants says it's from the marine islands of Ethiopia. I think we all know that Ethiopia is landlocked, the seacoast to the west is part of Somalia, and it's easy to think it might be a mistake in transcription, but what some might not know is that Eritrea and many of the islands off Eritrea used to belong to Ethiopia.
So how would plants from remote islands in Eritrea end up in the Trinity manuscript? I suspect it is because there was a significant Italian colony in Eritrea in the middle ages. We have to remember that northerners (even the Scandinavians) colonized quite a few parts of northern Africa and some of them probably kept in touch with families and colleagues "back home".
Unfortunately, it's hard to study native Eritraean plants. The flora were decimated during soviet expansion and occupation and many of them probably became extinct before they were studied by botanists.