29-08-2017, 07:53 AM
Thanks to Thomas_S for bringing up this MS.
JKP's point that some illustrations are based on prints of plants is confirmed by the library description.
This made me look at Karen Reeds' article in Chapter 8 of "Givens, Reeds and Touwaide: Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200 - 1550", which has the title: "Leonardo da Vinci and Botanical Illustration: Nature Prints, Drawings and Woodcuts c. 1500."
Here the MS is only mentioned briefly as one of three pre-dating Leonardo's use of prints of plants. It gives a reference for this MS:
Elisabeth Antoine (ed): Sur la terre comme au ciel: Jardins d'occident à la fin du môyen age (Paris 2002), pp.228-9.
As far as I can tell, the MS has components from different sources, i.e. many of the herbs that come from the alchemical herbals, as Marco already pointed out, but also many that come from other traditions.
JKP's point that some illustrations are based on prints of plants is confirmed by the library description.
This made me look at Karen Reeds' article in Chapter 8 of "Givens, Reeds and Touwaide: Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200 - 1550", which has the title: "Leonardo da Vinci and Botanical Illustration: Nature Prints, Drawings and Woodcuts c. 1500."
Here the MS is only mentioned briefly as one of three pre-dating Leonardo's use of prints of plants. It gives a reference for this MS:
Elisabeth Antoine (ed): Sur la terre comme au ciel: Jardins d'occident à la fin du môyen age (Paris 2002), pp.228-9.
As far as I can tell, the MS has components from different sources, i.e. many of the herbs that come from the alchemical herbals, as Marco already pointed out, but also many that come from other traditions.