[Trinity] Plant identification in Trinity College MS O.2.48 Apuleii Herbarium

[Koen G]

Hmmm. I read in Riddle's paper that Medieval authors who wished to write about plants would regularly do so under the name of a famous predecessor, since innovation was frowned upon. So I guess that even if the name Dioskorides or Isidore or... was meant, it could always be an unknown "pseudo's" version. Though this scenario might be unlikely.

One thing I've been trying, without success so far, is to see how the monogram compares to regularly used (word initial) capitals. This might help us determine which letter(s) is meant.