11-05-2017, 07:47 PM
All this is perhaps bordering on the OT for the Voynich MS, but who knows....
The image on the left matches Leiden Voss.Lat. Q9, as far as I can tell, and the illustration in the Kassel MS I mentioned above is very similar.
The Leiden Vossius collection has been digitised with support from Brill, and is accessible for students of Leiden University, and to others against payment, but I have no information how much.
The Leiden MS from the 6th century is the oldest surviving copy of the Pseudo-Apuleius collection, and here, this herb was already called 'Verbascum'. The version 'Barbascum' seems more likely to be a much later 'confusion'.
As Marco already pointed out, the text in the Cambridge MS closely matches the text in other copies of Pseudo-Apuleuis, and in fact this goes back to the earliest known copies, so there is no doubt that this herb is meant.
However, the 'brown cactus' version is the most common one, also seen in Florence Plut. 73.16 (fol. 97r):
The image on the left matches Leiden Voss.Lat. Q9, as far as I can tell, and the illustration in the Kassel MS I mentioned above is very similar.
The Leiden Vossius collection has been digitised with support from Brill, and is accessible for students of Leiden University, and to others against payment, but I have no information how much.
The Leiden MS from the 6th century is the oldest surviving copy of the Pseudo-Apuleius collection, and here, this herb was already called 'Verbascum'. The version 'Barbascum' seems more likely to be a much later 'confusion'.
As Marco already pointed out, the text in the Cambridge MS closely matches the text in other copies of Pseudo-Apuleuis, and in fact this goes back to the earliest known copies, so there is no doubt that this herb is meant.
However, the 'brown cactus' version is the most common one, also seen in Florence Plut. 73.16 (fol. 97r):
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