16-05-2017, 02:04 PM
(16-05-2017, 01:22 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I'm not sure what's going on here, but it looks like "Indiascorides"(f.66r middle of page)
This long chapter is about Pentadactius / Ricinus illustrated in 66v. Starting from the line above the one you marked:
Item semen eius habet ??? | virtutem eundi invisibiliter secundum quod invenitur indiascorides qui | dicit si quis acceperit ix semina huius herbe et in mensse marcii inpone[?] | in capitem alicuius gatti[?] nigris[?] tota planta urit et intera posuerit | et cum semen ??? in illis seminibus inveniuntur iii semina quos dum in hore | huius non poteri videri ab alio.
"Its seed has [...] the virtue of going around invisibly, according to what is found in Dioscorides. He says that, if one takes nine sees of this plant in the month of March and places the whole plant [on the head of a black cat?] and burn it together with the seeds [...], among those seeds he will find three seeds such that, as long as they are kept in his mouth, he cannot be seen by anybody"
I am not sure of the bit about the black cat. Maybe I have read too many spells lately

The coincidence with the invisibility granted by You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is interesting, of course.


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